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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:16:34 PM
Before Adolf Hitler killed himself in April 1945 he explained to his aides that he was determined not to fall into the hands of the Russians — and land up as the freak exhibit in a Moscow waxworks. ( Adolf Hitler finally returns to Berlin )
As luck would have it, Hitler — or, at least, a waxen effigy — has now been put on display in Berlin, a short stroll away from his former bunker.
Thanks to Madame Tussauds, which has just opened a new affiliate in Berlin, Germans can at last view a realistic model of the Führer. The suspicion, though, is that he will bring nothing but trouble.
To ensure that the wax Führer does not inspire neo-Nazi pilgrimages, Madame Tussauds has cordoned off the dummy and imposed a no-touch rule. You can kiss Robbie Williams or even Angela Merkel, but not Hitler; nor can you pose for a picture with him. There are CCTV cameras and the London-based company has also taken the precaution of moulding a very shrivelled Führer. Unlike the Hitler model in London, he is shown as a distinctly unvigorous character: a hunched, brooding man sitting behind his desk, apparently contemplating whether to first poison his alsatian dog, Blondie, and then his wife, Eva Braun, or vice versa. Behind him there is a map of the Europe which his troops once occupied. It would take a very determined neo-Nazi indeed to get a happy snap before being hustled out by the security guards.
The Jewish community is divided over the decision to place Hitler in a museum that is essentially designed to entertain rather than inform.
( I am not sure about this I hope when children and others see this display they will be told or reminded what this evil man did and tried to do to this world. We must never let another Holocaust happen. Lets not forget all it takes for evil to happen is for good people to do nothing.)