Man tears head off Hitler wax figure at new museum in Berlin

Does the guy understand that it is a lifeless wax figure?

Now what could possibly motivate someone to react violently to an attempt at using Hitler's image as a benign feature in a museum?

It must have been a totally irrational act. Why would anyone have strong feelings about Hitler?

irrational behavior.

alexander the great mercilessly destroyed persepolis and plundered it's wealth, yet his image is still adorned today. george bush decided to invade iraq, bombed them back to the stone age, killed masses of innocent people, and now left the country in an apocryphal state, yet his portrait is displayed in schools throughout this country.

art should always be respected.

JohnNS wrote:

Does the guy understand that it is a lifeless wax figure?

Someone should have torn off the real Hitler's head some 70 to 75 years ago.

Recordo wrote:

Now what could possibly motivate someone to react violently to an attempt at using Hitler's image as a benign feature in a museum?
It must have been a totally irrational act. Why would anyone have strong feelings about Hitler?

Recordo, there are lots of things I might want to trash, if it were my property, but giving this lunatic a pass because it's a wax head of Hitler isn't too swift. The display was a historically accurate portrayal of the way Hitler looked shortly before his suicide.

Alec Guinness portrayed Hitler as he was in the bunker. Would you have supported ripping his head off too?

....maybe he was tripping...or ...something

Sent it to quickly. recruit

Jack

Would have been better if they had cast his likeness after his suicide..

Germany can't deny their past and Hitler is a big part of it. To not put him in this exhibit seems like they are trying to not acknowlede once again their past mistakes. They put him in power in 1933, own up to it, deal with it and move on, don't try to sweep it under the rug again.

Oh boy, here we go!

Another Holocaust!

More lawsuits for reparations, and mental anguish!

I love this.... Those things cost alot of money to make too.

This is just a lol story...

Talk about political anger..

They dont even talk about the holocaust in Germany and they posted a Hitler wax bust of him in a museum??

I read about the hitler "doll" going up the other day and it doenst shock me it took a day for the thing to get destroyed.

I love the headline tho.. "Man tears head off Hitler wax figure at new museum in Berlin"

Did Alexander the Great commit genocide? Did he obliterate an entire people or did he just want to conquer the people and the territory? There is a big difference between Alexander and Hitler. To equate the two is ridiculous. Hitler does not deserve to be "enshrined" in a museum. His evilness and his butchery will live on (providing one reads history) without glorifying this monster. Having been to Europe eight times, I have never, ever, stepped foot on German soil. And, I never will.

Save the head, stick a wick into the top and voila', a wonderful Hitler head candle for Halloween !

WRONG HEAD

Just Browsing-Chicago wrote:

Did Alexander the Great commit genocide? Did he obliterate an entire people or did he just want to conquer the people and the territory? There is a big difference between Alexander and Hitler. To equate the two is ridiculous. Hitler does not deserve to be "enshrined" in a museum. His evilness and his butchery will live on (providing one reads history) without glorifying this monster. Having been to Europe eight times, I have never, ever, stepped foot on German soil. And, I never will.

Then, perhaps, a history lesson is in order. You don't conquer a large swath of Asia, as Alexander did, without breaking a few eggs.

Hitler's likeness, in a museum, depictin Germany's history, is apropos. You cannot rewrite history, simply because it offends you.

I'm sure the Germans will miss your presence.

I do think it's neccessary for our children to learn of him in school and what took place in the 1940's.

I don't think that it is neccessary for children to draw pictures and put up drawings of that dark era in our histories past.

A few months back I wnet in to my childs school and they had some pictures/drawings of him and that period on the walls and I was taken back that they would have done that as well.

I don't think it is appropriate to put other pictures/drawings of other tyrants, hate acts, crimes or figures from any era up on our school blackboards or break areas.

This irrational yet justified act is the same thing just done by a 40 year old verses a young child. Is it?

Many leaders throughout history have committed genocide, including the bibical Moses. The British built a statue of Bomber Harris who ordered along with Winston Churchill the mass fire bombings of German cities to kill civilians. The United States would follow with the practice gained fireboming German cities with the mass fire bombings of Japan and then Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whoever wins the wars decides how the defeated go down in history and certainly the popular imagination. If anyone wants to understand WWII and Hitler, then he at least has to start at the end of WWI and study how the politicos and bankers laid the groundwork for WWII. The wealthy and the ruling classes get the money and start the wars and the rest of the world has to fight them. A shame since the wealthy in the form of death merchants reap the profit of another war.

Recordo wrote:

Now what could possibly motivate someone to react violently to an attempt at using Hitler's image as a benign feature in a museum?
It must have been a totally irrational act. Why would anyone have strong feelings about Hitler?

Were you around in the period of 1935 - 1945? If not, did you pay attention in history class in school? These are reasons why people have strong feelings about Hitler.

Gosh. There are few countries which are more aware of the events that took place during the time Hitler was in power than Germany. Honestly. In school, it's the topic in history lessons most of the time. If you say something slightly pro-nazi, you get ripped apart by the public (just google Eva Herman, her career is OVER). Germany is very aware of it's past, it's a wound that still aches and a topic people are still ashamed about.

"They dont even talk about the holocaust in Germany and they posted a Hitler wax bust of him in a museum??" That's a LIE. As I said, holocaust is a steady topic. In the media, in school, in the public discussion, it's always there. And people don't want to deny that it happened, that's why they put him up in the new Madam Tussauds - because he's a part of german history that can't be deleted.

"Having been to Europe eight times, I have never, ever, stepped foot on German soil. And, I never will." Well, that's sad. It only underlines an old prejudice of Germans against other countries: Everywhere in the world, they still get asked "Is Hitler still alive?" or "Oh, and you are reigned by Nazis, right?" and other shit. Unbelievable. We are the second generation after the guys who screwed up our country 76 years ago. People get sick thinking of it. It's surely one of the memories that made germany people strictly speak against a war in Iraq. But most of those Nazis are dead by now (or they live happily in Florida. Do you set foot on Florida? Because many rich Nazi-bastards went there after war, you know, and have the time of theri life) and our generation is not guilty of the things that happened whatsoever. It's just our mission to make sure it will never, ever happen again. Ignorant people don't help. Try visiting Berlin once. It's a beautiful city with nice inhabitants and an openly gay mayor. Kinda open-minded, don't you think?

if it´s not neccessary for your children to learn about hitler, then why is it neccessary to learn about holocaust ?