Madame Tussaud’s opened its doors for the first time in Berlin Saturday morning. And the second visitor to enter the door ripped off the head of a wax Adolph Hitler.

While the wax figure stirred controversy from the getgo, the wax museum franchise, as far as I remember from my visits to one in Amsterdam as a child and one in New Amsterdam I would like to forget, puts a historical backdrop of the city or country at the beginning of the museum. Although most people race through this so that they can get next to the Terminator or Bill Clinton, there is more to the museum than pop culture (yes, I know, it hurts). Keeping with this, it would be wrong of Madame Tussaud’s to exclude Hitler from the history of Berlin and Germany. It’s not a pretty history but it most definitely is a history that should not be forgotten. But then again, Europe seems to enjoy hiding from that unfortunate blip on their history. I dare you to try finding a copy of Mein Kampf in a bookstore there. Trust me, you won’t be able to.

I probably would have more sympathy for this executioner if he was an old Holocaust survivor or some boy who has forced into being a member of Hitler Youth. But instead, this guy was born two decades after the concentration camps closed. He also retired from his work as a policeman after he found himself sympathizing with “anarchist lefistist” (can someone explain that conundrum to me?) protesters.

And can we talk about the property rights involved here?!? The Hitler wax dummy cost over a quarter of a million dollars to make. I hope this guy is held responsible and the price isn’t forked over to the visitors who already pay over $20 to enter that fun house.

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