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Wax Hitler Beheaded

Protester Destroy's Faux Fuehrer

From Buck Wolf, About.com

Decades after the fall of the Nazis, Adolf Hitler remains controversial. At the opening of Madame Tussauds' Berlin museum, a protester beheaded the dictator.
Wax Hilter Decapitated

Adolf Hitler's wax figure, shortly before the opening of Madame Tussauds in Berlin.

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The museum promised sensitivity. Hitler would be depicted in his final days, a broken man on the verge of suicide, locked in a bunker as his twisted society was about to collapse.

Jewish groups were brought in to consult on the exhibit, and they voiced their approval.

Still, on the museum's first day, a 41-year-old man pushed passed two security guards, and ripped Adolf's head off.

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