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Wax Hitler as it appears in Madame Tussauds in Berlin

BERLIN [JTA] — A former police officer was fined for beheading a wax figure of Hitler last summer. The unnamed perpetrator, who is unemployed, must pay $1,227 for taking off the head at Berlin's new Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in July.

Ex-Policeman Fined for Beheading Wax Hitler

Wax Hitler as it appears in Madame Tussauds in Berlin

BERLIN [JTA] — A former police officer was fined for beheading a wax figure of Hitler last summer. The unnamed perpetrator, who is unemployed, must pay $1,227 for taking off the head at Berlin’s new Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in July.

In his court hearing, the man said he had intended to protest against what he considered to be the crass commercialism of Madame Tussauds in installing a model of Hitler close to the former seat of Nazi power.

The perpetrator, one of the first to enter the museum, had lunged past guards to reach the Hitler figure. He also slightly injured a guard.

The figure was repaired and now stands under close watch at the museum. Visitors are not permitted to pose for photos with the Hitler figure.

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13 Comments

  • Answer to Sick

    Rav Avigdor Miller, ZT“L, said like
    this: ”Hitler thought that by committing
    suicide, that was it? No, that’s when the
    fun began!”

  • Milhouse

    What exactly is the point of this destruction? If you want to have fun beheading a statue, or defacing a picture, or whatever you like, buy your own. What right have you got to go to a museum and destroy theirs?

    Is the museum doing something wrong by displaying one of the most famous people in world history? Are they supposed to leave him out and pretend he never existed? That all those other people fought WW2 against a ghost?

  • Job Well Done

    haha that is hysterical. That guy doesn’t deserve to be put up for ppl. to remember him!

  • Judah

    The museum should be fined for displaying a wax figure of Hitler Yemach S’hmo

  • ah poshta yid fuen shcuna

    millhouse . the word is infamous , he may be famose to u
    but not most of the people here

  • UNREAL

    millhouse, SO I GUESS WE SHOULD MAKE WAX FIGURES OF THE MONSTERS THAT TOOK DOWN THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS, AND PART OF THE PENTAGON, AND TRIED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE ETC. WOULD YOU STILL SAY THE SAME THING IF THAT BEAST KILLED YOUR MOTHER, FATHER, SISTERS, BROTHERS, GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES, COUSINS IN ONE DAY? OH, I FORGOT YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN IN THAT MIX AS WELL. THEY ALL SHARED A COMMON GRAVE. THAT IS IF THEY WEREN’T BURNT. IT’S PEOPLE WITH YOUR ATTITUDE THAT MAKE ME AND THE REST OF THE WORLD S I C K.

  • chagelberg

    they should pay him for cutting the statue’s head off and fine the museum for putting up a statue of hitler yemach shemo!

  • Milhouse

    Like it or not, Hitler is one of the most prominent people in history. That is a fact. He was Time Man of the Year several times, because the year’s major news was about him. You can’t scrub him from history, any more than you can Par’oh, Nevuchadnezzar, Haman, Antiochus, Titus, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Stalin, Mao, Arafat, or any other notorious criminal. They are all important historical figures, and there’s no reason at all why a museum like Tussaud’s should pretend they didn’t exist. Hitler is not a special case.

  • Milhouse

    I have not the slightest doubt that if Tussaud’s doesn’t already have Osama bin Laden and the 19 hijackers, or Saddam Hussein, it will have them within a short time. It’s probably already working on getting enough pictures of them to work from.