It took minutes for someone to destroy the Hitler wax figure at the new Madame Tussuad's museum in Berlin. A 41-year-old German man ripped the head off of the figure that had taken four months to create.
As the first customers started coming through the day on opening day a man rushed the security guards to make his destructive protest of the
exhibit.
Many had criticized that having Hitler in the museum was in bad taste. The War World Two dictator is a part of German history that many in the nation would prefer to forget. In Germany it is even illegal to show Nazi symbols and any art glorifying Hitler. Because of those laws the exhibit was cordoned off to make sure that no visitors would posed with the figure.
Artists with Madame Tussuad's had spent four painstaking months creating the exhibit. Creating the wax figure 25 workers used over 2,000 pictures and a model of the "Fuehreer" that is in the London branch of the museum. It figured Hitler sitting in a mock bunker during the last days of his life.
The museum had placed signs around the exhibit for guests not to take photos or pose with Hitler "out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two". Cameras were set up to capture any inappropriate behavior and put a quick stop to it.
In the end all the security measures proved void.
The man was arrested.
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Minutes After Opening Doors Berlin's Madame Tussuad's Museum Hitler Display Destroyed
