Waxy Hitler Decapitated

It's been said that Adolf Hitler, descending even further into darkness from the madman that he already was, lost his head during those final days in his Berlin bunker before swallowing his cyanide caplets. (And if you haven't seen it, the German film "Downfall," with a chilling performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler, documents this well.)

Today, as a controversial wax figure of Hitler sitting in his bunker debuted at the new Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin, just the second customer to enter jumped into the display and ripped off the pouty fuhrer's head. Well-deserved, really, but the unidentified 41-year-old man who scuffled with the security guard minding the exhibit was taken into custody for beheading the tyrant.

Questions remain about whether Hitler will be able to wax about bunker life in the future remain: The inclusion of the fuhrer in the exhibit had already become a hot point of controversy, not to mention German law bans the display of Nazi regalia or the portrayal of Nazis in a positive light.

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