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Madame Tussaud's returns wax Hitler to Berlin

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-14 09:50

BERLIN -- Adolf Hitler has returned to Berlin.

Madame Tussaud's said Saturday it had returned a wax figure of the Nazi dictator to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German.

Visitors look at a wax figure of Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker at the German 'Madame Tussauds' in Berlin September 13, 2008. The figure of Hitler was back on display on Saturday at the waxworks at Berlin's well-known Unter den Linden boulevard, two months after its head was wrenched off by a visitor. [Agencies]

Hitler's figure can be viewed sitting at a desk in a replica of his bunker, Madame Tussaud's, the British waxworks maker, said. Hitler committed suicide in the bunker in 1945 as the Red Army converged on Berlin.

The Berlin branch said it does not allow visitors to enter the replica of the bunker, so that the figure is protected.

Madame Tussaud's has defended its display of the Hitler figure in Berlin as "a legitimate part of our show" because he "stands for an important part of German history."

The presence of the Nazi dictator's likeness in the new museum led to criticism in German media before the branch's opening in July.