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Man decapitates wax Hitler on opening day of Madame Tussauds in Berlin

July 5th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Looks like an SCTV parody. “…and Dave Thomas as Der Fuehrer.”

BERLIN - Just minutes after Madame Tussauds opened the doors to its latest museum, a 41-year-old German man walked past security guards and proceeded to rip the head off a controversial waxwork figure of reviled Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

I’ve heard of saving Hitler’s brain, but this is extreme. Perhaps he was simply celebrating the recent discovery of the director’s cut of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. After all, it was one of Hitler’s favorite movies.

Reuters reports that a police spokesman said the angry man did what he had to do in order to protest the exhibit. The polizei were alerted and the man did not resist arrest. He was being investigated for enacting a paraffin putsch.

It took twenty-five workers four months to complete the project. They examined 2,000 photographs and pieces of archival material and the damn thing still looks more like Bruno Ganz than than the world’s greatest fascist dictator. The team also found inspiration from an upright model located in the London branch of Madame Tussauds.

One burning question remains: Why would anyone in their right mind drop their hard-earned dough to see a bunch of wax dolls? It all seems like such a profound waste of disposable income. Posing for a photo with an in-the-flesh celeb is one thing. Grinning beside a lifeless substitute is pathetic.

How the museum got around the fact that It is illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler is unknown. The exhibit was cordoned off, but museum officials feared that visitors would view this as a photo-op and cross security ropes in order to pose with Schicklgruber.

Unobtrusive signs were posted asking visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler “out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two.” There was no mention of refraining from dislodging the simonized effigy’s head.

The petroleum tableau depicted a down-trodden Dolf seated in his bunker during the last days of his life. Critics accused the profiteering museum of bad taste for placing a waxy depiction of a fascist lunatic responsible for the deaths of millions of people next to likenesses of movie stars and pop musicians.

Reuters described the replica Hitler as, ” Dressed in a grey suit, (gazing) downwards with a despondent stare, his arm outstretched on a large wooden table with a map of Europe on the wall of his gloomy bunker.

Had they placed the Hitler facsimile in close proximity to the George Bush dummy, no one would have bothered to take notice.

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