Wax figure of Hitler at Madame Tussaud's
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Berlin: Man rips off head of Hitler figure at new Madame Tussaud's branch
German police say 41-year-old man arrested after tearing off head of wax figure of Nazi dictator shortly after museum opens to public
Berlin police say a man has ripped off the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussaud's newly opened branch in the German capital.
A police statement says the 41-year-old man tore off the head of the figure shortly after the museum opened to the public on Saturday morning.
They say officers were alerted and the man arrested.
The presence of the Nazi dictator's figure in the new museum led to criticism in German media over recent weeks, but defenders of the plan argued Hitler's role in German history could not be ignored.
Even the head of Berlin's Jewish community, Lala Suesskind, said recently that she was not against including Hitler among the wax models of the new Madame Tussaud's museum.
"Better to have him in the wax cabinet and out of the minds of many people," she told the DPA news agency.
