When Hitler ran for Chancellor of Germany, wasn't his platform about "hope" and "change"?
They young will re-live those horrors because they are to busy listening to their Ipod to find out what a mistake it would be to elect a Marxist to lead them. We will no longer have friend to call on

Amad Shaff, Runweed, Pakistan

Wow you can tell this links from the Drudge Report by the type of Americans responding to it. You guys are embarassing.

Adam, Atlanta, USA

Stalin killed more of his own people (estimates of 30 million +) & was at least as brutal & psychopathic as Hitler. Yet his judges presided over the Nazis war crimes tribunal (which naturally made it a farce). Will there also be a model of him; radiant, glowing, happy, living a life of luxury?

Jim , Boston, USA

I wish these people would give us a break. It happened over 60 years ago and there are far worse things happening in the present day. It's only a 'kin waxwork.

anglicus, Woking, England

My guess is that the figure is feeling a bit light headed now...

Jeff, Sacramento / CA, USA

I grugingly agree that Hitler should be in the Museum. Because our young people seem not to understand the enormity of his cruel deeds, he should not be shown in his Bunker, but in one of his prison camps with some of the tortured bodies he so caliously killed.

Jane, Lindsay,

It's a misunderstanding to think that Germans are trying to "erase" H. from history, as the BBC puts it. On the contrary, the country has faced its past in a way few others have. H. is almost universally hated in Germany, hence the attack. Many think Tussaud's is about titillation not education.

K. Smith, London, UK

Just read on a German Internetsite that the
figure was destroyed by a visitor and removed from
the exihibtion.

Susy, Munich, Germany

I predict that someone will take his head off!

Matthew Jones, Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

as far as i know, most germans know very well what a kind of person he was and our history musn't be forgotten. unfortunately, not many young people in britain seem to know that: last time i went there i actually saw 2 girls posing next to him raising their right arm! and that's just one example...

Matthias, Recklinghausen, Germany

Problem solved: The second visitor of the exhibition in Berlin destroyed Hitlers wax figure.

Jan , Berlin, Germany

The Times 1945 "few men in history and none in modern times have been the cause of so much suffering on so large a scale...". But Pol Pot, Mugabe, Saddam, Amin etc etc - not for want of trying!

Kevin Straw, Leicester,

I have a German friend who told me that all children in Germany are taught about WW2 inside out. Now how many western countries do that? Time to learn about the atrocities caused by Britain in their Empire building days.

Ali, London, UK

well done Tussauds - you care very little about content other than to put one or two controversial dummies in to generate sufficient press coverage. Cheap column inches for your new attraction, you certainly achieved your goal.

SC, London, UK

So easy to vilify Hitler today, but what about Stalin and Mao, who between them murdered countless millions of their own people. Why has Hitler become the Bogeyman ? Who as an agenda here ?

Alex, London, England

Keep him taboo and the myth and appeal will perpetuate. He IS history and not representative of a modern and forward thinking Germany.
It happened generations ago. I don't see the same fuss kicked up about having statues of Henry VIII and George III - think of what they did to Ireland and America!

Barney, Liverpool, UK

Well, Steve from Glendale, believe me when I say we Germans aren't beating ourselves up about Hitler all the time - that's being done by everyone around us.
What the author conveniently forgot is the protest this wax-figure aroused in Germany - of course this detail would spoil all the fun, right?

Ilja, Sliema, Malta

If anything, the story of Hitler and Germany should be told far and wide to educate people as to what happens when you believe what your government says without critical assessment and allow it to do as it pleases without oversight. It should be a textbook example of the failure of a big government.

Steve, Chicago, IL, USA

We all know Hitler was a nasty piece of work and everything , yet how can Robbie Williams and his ever so tiny contribution to history be mentioned in the same breath?

paul kelly, limehouse, england

"Why the fascination with him?"
This is some kind of joke, right?
He's the most infamous historical figure of all time. Fill in any blanks you want.

Troy, Danville, USA

And for our next contestants? Make sure Stalin and Hirohito get their "shriveled" images displayed when the time comes. Germany should feel no shame as a nation for a national figure at least twice removed generationally. Who polices the display of these other despots from around the world?

Luton Rouge, Philadelphia, United States

His thoughts and ideas inspired the creation of maybe the greatest nation ever on earth; his final solution was diabolical. It's sickening sit by today and see all of Hitler's greatest fears unfold and most of the world is clueless to what is going on.. Read his book and encourage others to do so...

John, Georgia,

Hitler, is a fact of history, like any other dictator or leader. Hide him away and pretend ''it didnt happen'' is not the way to handle it. Bring him out into the open tell the truth about him, and dispel all the myths.

margaret, sunderland, tyne/wear

I am just glad that the Austrian Corporal is dead.

David Barr, Daytn Ohio, USA

he blong to history i dont have any problem with displaying hitler

Hendrik Stollen, los angeles, USA

Hiding Hitler from the children just builds up the mythology around him. Let the public see him as the small pathetic man he was and the legend will die.

Bill Clay, Miami, USA

Elvis left a more lasting impression.

Chris Hollins, Charlotte, USA

Why is it that America expects every country with a questionable past to pander endlesssly about their past with museums to their citizens, who have no connection to these past events? Why is this game of guilt not played in America with museums remebering the killing of Native Americans and Slavery

Mick Turner, Phoenix, USA

"Hitler was a British Agent" is a fascinating book. It claims that he lived in England from February - November 1912 and attended the British Military School of Psychological Operations at Tavistock. It claims that he was rescued from Berlin and later killed by MI6 in Spain about 1950.

Russell, Texas,

Tragically Hitler is here to stay despite his death in 1945. If asked to name one person who dramatically changed the course of modern history Hitler would surely be top of the list.

He caused the European map to be redrawn and changed the lives of millions through death or immigration.

Tony Campbell, Northampton, UK

I lived in Germany for six years and married a German woman. I can safely say that there will never be a revival of Nazi idealogy in Germany. The original Nazis are long gone and modern Germans have no interest in repeating history. Like it or not, Hitler was a huge part of German history.

Johnann Unbekannt, Hanau, Hesse, Germany

A. Hitler was someone who was able to hypnotize the Germans and urged them to commit horrific crimes. Me and my friends always laughed a lot about his speeches and the people who believed all this nonsense.
Unforunately there are still people in Germany and around the world who will never learn.

Juergen T., Stuttgart, Germany

As a Jewess in the US, I say depict as realistic a Hitler as possibe. Let history ring TRUE. That is the best insurance against another Holocaust. I wish my German relatives had owned HALF the guns we own here. They may still have died, but they could have taken a bunch of Nazi's with them!

Wendy Weinbaum, Seattle, WA, USA

Some in America know well how Hitler came to be the representative of destruction that he was: Largely through Wall Street / International Banks. Intriguing that the very same people in many respects, can be demonstrated as being very much on the world scene today - in particular American Politics

RoninMaxiumus, Austin, Texas, USA

Hitler should be included in history, I'm for the wax figure. I don't share his ideology at all, but he did make a huge impact (negative one) to the world during his time.

Josh M. , Miami, FL, USA

Of course he should be there. A horrible reminder of what happened when a common man with uncommon abilities came to power.

John, London, SE,

As a history buff I've always found it sad that, at least in the States, one cannot really discuss Hitler or the Nazi's in any even remotely public forum. Nothing is all bad, but even to touch on the few positive aspects of his reign can rile people up and cause some pretty silly accusations.

DiAblo, Emporia, USA

Imagine if Hitler today lived in the middle east and had enormous oil wealth and access to massive nuclear technology. I wonder how long Europe will again watch a new Hitler Grow and again do nothing until its to late.

PAC, Lombard, USA

I think Hitler should be displayed. He is a part of history, after all. As Louise said, Berlin is very upfront in it's portrayal of the horrors of history, in particular the Holocaust. The Holocaust museum is full of graphic details of the atrocties that went on. I admire them for their honesty.

Kate, Brackley,

Regardless of whether his aspirations were those of an aggrieved German people, he should be remembered based on his actions. Those terrible ideas should be a focal point of what the man was. I cannot understand why neo Nazis, especially American kids, would want to emulate a defeated coward.

Drew, Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fear not. It was my impression when last in Germany (1992) that, other than the surviving subjects of Hitler's rein of terror, it was the younger Germans themselves that then reviled Der Fuhrer more than any others in this enlightened era. Of course, what future historians will make of him is ?.

Calvin Bard, San Antonio, TX, USA

It may be controversial to say, but IMO Hitler was in some ways a product of his time - the Depression, decades of nationalist feuding, perceived ignominy over the Treaty of Versailles. If it wasn't him it probably would have been some other crazed demagogue to lead the world into war...

Ben, Columbus, OH, USA

When Hitler ran for Chancellor of Germany, wasn't his platform about "hope" and "change"?

Think about it. Read how Hitler came to power.

johnny, Hattiesburg, USA

Hitler , like histoy is contentious. Was Hitler the inevitable repercussion of Versailles , did his ideology set him apart from German history from 1900 onwards or was his aspirations those of an aggrieved German people , down but never out after the First World War . Understand without revereing.

ian, Belfast,

Hitler was a monster. Although in some way he was successful in what he set out to achieve; Who else could have inflicted a regime like he did? Thank goodness that he did not achieve his eventual goal. The world needs to remember people like this, not forget.

Chris, Guildford, UK

no one can be 100 % wrong , then why target hitler all the time , Hitler today = Holocast + killing of millions, war , then what about stalin , US , Spainish , english etc who killed millions brutalily . One who wins is correct so here by this logic Hitler is worng.

Kumar, Delhi, India

The fact is that Hitler is loved and admired still by a great many people all around the world from Japan to Zimbabwe. Even Idi Amin made a statue of Hitler.This is the reason for the German states paranoia. What is the danger is that underground Hitlerism becomes quasi-religious.

keith, wigan, uk

Hitler was a psychopath. But with the benefit of hindsight, wasn't WWII something that had to happen after all? Tensions between europen countries were still strong at the time. If there hadn't been such a terrible war, european countries would have never learnt to "coexhist" in peace and respect

Horace , Firenze (Florence), Italy

Hitler was a tragic figure: both personally and historically. He became ruthless and obsessed with his "will to power" over Germany and even all of Europe. ... his life (and the consequences thereof) should be a lesson to us all.

Lenben, Phoenix, United States

Why the fascination with him? Can't they waste their time on someone else?

Neil in AZ, Mesa Arizona, USA

I don't see a problem with this display. Historically correct. Tussaud's should be commended for their striaghtforward depiction of The Fuhrer.

Mike, Hopkins, Mn

Hitler lived and died. In the process he murdered or caused millions to die. Let the world see waht a deranged person he was.

phillip, augusta, usa

Regardless of how disgusting he was, history can't ignor or completely block him out. That would be an even greater crime, to all of those who fell because of him.

David, Holbrook, USA

Maybe they can have a combo display with him and Stalin. Name it murderers row

Otto, Athens, USA

They should put Stalin, Mao, & Pol Pot in there with him. I'm sure they'll have plenty to talk about when the doors are locked. It's been over 60 years now, the Germans shouldn't forget, but they shouldn't constantly beat themselves up over it either.

SteveinAZ, Glendale, USA

He brought a broken nation together, instilled national pride, delivered on his promises and led his nation to the gates of hell with charisma, murder, intimidation and sheer force of power in the army he was allowed to raise in spite of the Versailles treaty. Evil walks. We allowed it.

John, Selinsgrove Pa, America

They should have this wax figure in the headquarters of the DNC. It would be a fitting tribute to the modern neo-liberals!

RG, newtown, USA

Certainly ADOLPH HITLER should be represented in all his despicable infamies and should not be ignored. HITLER is one of the more atrocious figures in mankind's history and this figurine should be viewed as it was - an apotheosis of twisted human evil.

Zyskandar A Jaimot, ORLANDO, Fl, usa

Ooh my, what a taboo in Germany!
This will certainly garner plenty of attention.

Adam, Oxford,

I do not understand the fascination, especially from the lips of the American Left, with Adolph Hitler. I believe that it is to purge their guilty consciences of the fact that Hitler and Stalin were allies. And that world Communism has killed far more than Hitler and the Third Reich.

James X, California, USA

i love billy zoom and X!

mistersmooch, san francisco, ca

We must never forget just what Hitler did. My parents came from Germany and would never talk about their lives there. They were very proud to be Americans,
Joan

Joan Wales, El Paso, USA

I believe that waxworks of Hitler are whoafully lacking in museums around the world. We do not ever want to forget him, how he came to power, the brilliant nation he mesmerized, and the human misery he caused.

Bob Nelson, Jacksonville, USA

I'd like to see a wax model of Hitler accepting flowers from an adoring child or a model of him bent over petting a deer. I've seen photos of both and think it would make a great display.

Maus, Memphis, USA

Adam-Oxford,
If you're saying that the Germans do not look their past firmly in the face and acknowledge what their ancestors did - then you've clearly never been to Berlin! It's full of museums and memorials regarding the atrocities under Hitler's rule.
They do a much better job than us Brits!

louise, brighton, east sussex

They should display him next to six million emaciated wax corpses, twenty million wax graves, and the ruins of a wax continent.
BZ

Billy Zoom, Orange, CA, Unites States of America

Good for Mr.Stephan Kramer that he understans that he was a nut-case and in the end got his just deserts.

G. C.Woods, Charlotte, NC , USA