Today was opening day for a wax museum in Berlin, where one exhibit was a controversial wax figure of Adolf Hitler in his bunker. Some folks were very unhappy about this exhibit. There were signs asking visitors not to pose with Hitler, which is something I never thought you’d need to ask.
So just minutes after the opening, some guy pushes the security guards aside, leaps over a desk, twists Hitler’s big waxy head off, and runs away.
Note to self: do NOT hire these particular security dudes, who don’t seem to grasp the concept. In fairness, though, you can see in this photo that a guard remained on the scene after the incident, I guess in case the intruder came back for the desk.
Guard stands next to empty mock desk of Adolf Hitler after a man tore the head off the waxwork figure on the opening day of Berlin`s ‘Madame Tussauds’ July 5, 2008. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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Wow! This is exactly what those psychics predicted on that Foreigner 4 album.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksSo that listing on eBay is legit?
- Posted by John C AbellAccording to history books, Hitler once said that the Third Reich would reign for 1000 years. I think that he was right.
First of all, I’m not a neo-nazi or anything like that or in favor of the whole Nazi party. What happened back then was horrible.
I think that Hitler was right about the 1000 years because everyone still remembers him and his politics. If one were to be truely bannished from society, then he and his doings would have to never be spoken of or remembered. To completely forget. That is the only way to break the 1000 year reignment. Otherwise, he has already won being infamous.
Just as Jesus and his teachings are still being remembered and practiced to this day some 2000 years ago, history books, movies, novels and all things Nazi will still be remembered 1000 years from now….if we all live that long.
Hitler was a powerful man for all of the wrong reasons. Why do we still want to remember him?
- Posted by DayshiftbobYou’re not very bright, are you? Of all the things you choose to quote, it’s some obscure Hitler “We will rule forever” crap? How about that golden rule, the only way to keep history from repeating itself is to learn from it? Granted, I’m at work, and so I can’t pull up a reference so that I can stick it in these nifty little “”…but come on dude. The day we forget about him is the day another one comes back.
All that being said…I’ve got my bid in for 22.50, John. It’s all I can afford.
- Posted by WilliamYou missed my point.
How about this…children learn from modeling. They watch others and learn their actions and do it themselves. As long as there is always something bad to learn from somebody else, they will want to know more about it.
With that being written, do you really think that there will be anymore neo-nazis trying to keep Hitler alive in memory? no. So therefore, if we as a society bannish him and his politics, there would be nothing to learn from to repeat the process.
OHHHHH, but you said we have to learn from our history so that we don’t do it again. As long as we have knowledge of what happened, then it will never go away. If civilization survives another 1000 years, I’d have to guess that he will still be remembered because…..we have to? Why? Just forget him and get rid of all that relates to him and his memory will go away.
The atom bomb was built for mass destruction. But you don’t see the plans on how to make it in a history book. If the plans for this device could be destroyed so that no one would know how to make one, then it will be forgotten and lost. Then there would be nothing to have to remember to keep it from being made again.
So why not just forget Hitler?
- Posted by DayshiftbobI forgot to write that in Germany, it is illegal to display a swatika. Isn’t that a form of forgetting? To banish the symbol from Germany’s history? Afterall, the mark itself is only a symbol. But people choose to still remember what it once stood for.
- Posted by DayshiftbobI also have to add that in this article, it reads that the man jumped over the desk and ripped off Hitler’s head.
Why did he do that? Its just a wax figure. It would be my best guess that the man was somehow directly affected by Hitler’s actions. Perhaps a family member was killed back in the ’40’s. Or perhaps a loved one was killed by a neo-nazi group. Whatever the reason, he wanted to take out his aggression on the wax figure to “get even” and have some sort of satisfaction and/or revenge.
But I think to really get “even” with Hitler is to forget about him. He basically lives on infamously. There’s obviously no physical way to hurt him because he’s obviously dead. But his evil legacy lives on because we choose to make it live by “We HAVE to remember so that we don’t do it again.” But if we all were to just simply foget about him, then that’s how we triump over him.
- Posted by DayshiftbobOK, I think the comments by “Dayshiftbob” have gone a little over the top here. THIS IS A HUMOR COLUMN, not a anti-Nazi rant blog. If you really need to let off steam about Hitler, I’m sure you can find a more productive place to do it. The rest of us are enjoying the humor, thank you!
- Posted by kejadairEveryone says Hitler was a monster. Maybe he was, maybe not. Did Hitler boil up from hell and mezmorizer an entire nation(s). No, he was elected to office. The real lessons to learn here is what happened to bring him to power. Monsters come and monsters go, the process by which they emerge still remains unchanged. There will be plenty more monsters in the future as most people dont want to rock the boat, dont want to take a risk, and dont want to be out. This is where the monsters breed.
- Posted by rlsGODWIN’S LAW!!!!!!
- Posted by Jim Huang