They didn't have a Jack the Ripper, but did have an exhibit on torture and execution, plus a separate site called Chamber Live that features live people portraying criminals.
Posted on 06/03/2008 9:42:02 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
LONDON: A row has erupted over plans to install the waxwork of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds new Berlin museum, with critics describing it as an attempt to glorify the Nazi dictator's reign.
"It's tasteless. A waxworks museum is meant to entertain and to amuse. It's not appropriate to have a Hitler figure there," said Johannes Tuchel, from the Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand, a memorial for opponents of the Nazi regime.
Many fear that the waxwork, which will go on display when the museum opens next month, will glorify Hitler's reign, allowing younger visitors and neo-Nazis to pose for pictures with the replica dictator.
However a Madame Tussauds spokesman said Hitler deserved a place in the museum due to his impact on German history.
"Our surveys show people want to see him because he belongs to Germany's past," Natalie Ruoss was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail online of Britain.
However, the organisers plan to prevent visitors from posing with the 'Great Dictator'.
Hitler is already featured alongside US President George W. Bush and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the London museum's 'world leader' section.
The report said the new museum will also feature waxworks of scientist Albert Einstein, Chancellor Angela Merkel and sports stars including former tennis champion Boris Becker.
Is Jack the Ripper in the collection? Of so, are people allowed to pose with him? Does this express glorification or even approval of Red Jack?
I hear you, but of course no-one knows what Jack the Ripper looks like.
IIRC Hitler and the Royal family are the only sets of waxworks at the British Taussauds with no name plate. Hitler himself is particularly well placed - set right where you come out of a passage and happen suddenly upon him. Very effective.
They didn't have a Jack the Ripper, but did have an exhibit on torture and execution, plus a separate site called Chamber Live that features live people portraying criminals.
Nice political commentary. How did they manage to leave out Mao, Uncle Joe, and Pol Pot?
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