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Hitler loses his head
by Barry Artiste | July 5, 2008 at 08:49 am | 522 views | 18 comments
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Boy, I bet the Fürher never saw that one coming?
You know I am torn, which is your favourite Fürher ? FürherChaplin, Fürher Moe, or Fürher Cleese, Fürher Mel Brooks? decisions, decisions!
Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2352584,00.html
Hitler loses his head
Berlin - A man tore the wax head off an effigy of Adolf Hitler in Berlin on Saturday, just minutes after a new branch of the Madame Tussaud's waxwork-museum chain opened for the first time to the public.
German police said they detained the man, 41. He had crossed a rope barrier and touched the figure, and another member of the public tried to pull him away, with the head coming away in the melee.
Police said the detained man, from the nearby leftist neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, appeared to have been opposed to the inclusion of the Nazi dictator in the 75-figure show.
The decision by London-based Tussaud's, part of the Merlin Entertainments company, to include Hitler in the show, at an address on Berlin's grandest street, Unter den Linden, has roused fierce passions in the German capital.
Responding to warnings that it might become a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, Tussaud's depicted Hitler as a broken man in his bunker just before his 1945 defeat and death.
There are eight Tussaud's museums round the world. The other European shows are in London and Amsterdam.
The Saturday opening was extensively reported in the German media. While Hitler has been shown in German school textbooks, television history shows and feature films like Downfall in 2004, critics said the Tussaud's show was using him for entertainment.
The newspaper Bild reported on Saturday that another subject of a Tussaud's effigy, former chancellor Helmut Kohl, was seeking legal advice about his own inclusion in the show. Tussaud's had approached him and he had set certain conditions, but they were not met.
"I never gave permission," he was quoted saying. - Sapa-dpa
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July 5, 2008 at 08:49 am by Barry Artiste, 522 views, 18 comments
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at 08:52 on July 5th, 2008
Ha, I just posted this too - I'll take mine down...
at 08:58 on July 5th, 2008
Why not have two Amy, I am sure yours is different anyways
at 09:08 on July 5th, 2008
No, better to only have one - if I find anything new I'll add it to yours.
at 09:09 on July 5th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I'm surprised the head appears to have come off so easily - shouldn't it be more durable than that? I couldn't help but laugh though!
at 09:14 on July 5th, 2008
Well I guess when made of wax it is delicate I guess, thanks for the flag. Which is your fave Hitler?
Though you are too young to remember the three stooges, surely you have seen John Cleese as Hitler?
at 09:24 on July 5th, 2008
Charlie Chaplin was the champ "Hitler".
Uh . . . and I was not there for the initial release.
Cheers!
at 09:42 on July 5th, 2008
Thanks Dunkelberg for the flag and comments, granted Chaplin made a good Hitler, and I as well was not around for the premier, neither was my dad I think?
at 09:46 on July 5th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Charlie Chaplin any time Barry,well i think headless Hitler is more dangerous.
at 09:51 on July 5th, 2008
Thakns Azzy, I guess that is two votes for Chaplin,
at 10:12 on July 5th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. I say off with his head. Something that should have happened over 65 years ago!
at 10:50 on July 5th, 2008
hahahah agreed Politisite, thanks for the comments and the flag
at 13:46 on July 5th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Cool!
at 14:03 on July 5th, 2008
I agree with Polisite's comment!
at 14:08 on July 5th, 2008
Thanks Castro and Barb for visiting
at 14:16 on July 5th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Personally, I liked the Moe Hitler better. With him you also got Mousollini, Stalin and others. Plus, if I remember correctly, the Moe Hitler two-reeler actually was released before the Chaplin Hitler.
at 14:22 on July 5th, 2008
Thanks Mikasi for he visit and the comments, I think Chaplin Hitler was years earlier as there was no sound in the film, if I am correct, where as the three stooges, my all time favourites were talking in theirs. And BTW, Moe is my all time favourite Hitler too, so that is 2 Chaplin and 2 Moes'. What No Cleese Hitler?
at 00:02 on July 6th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:19 on July 6th, 2008
Hey thanks Nuke, somehow I thought you would.