Man tears off head of Hitler effigy at new Berlin museum

       

In the German capital Berlin, a man has torn off the head of a wax effigy of Adolf Hitler. The incident occurred only minutes after the new branch of the "Madame Tussaud's" waxwork museum opened to the public. A 41-year-old man was arrested and is facing charges of causing criminal damage and bodily harm after he hit another visitor who tried to stop him.

"He wanted to protest against Hitler's figure being on show," a police spokesman told 'Agence France Presse', adding that the model had been withdrawn from display for repairs. The decision to portray the Nazi dictator among the 70 famous figures in German history at the museum proved controversial in the country. Responding to suggestions that it might become a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, Hitler appears as a broken man in a mock-up of his bunker just before the end of World War II.