Waxwork Hitler draws controversy in Berlin

BERLIN, June 2 (UPI) -- German World War II memorial groups have objected to a wax museum's plans to install a waxwork Adolf Hitler at its new Berlin location.

The groups, which include a memorial for German opponents of the Nazi regime and the foundation for Germany's central Holocaust memorial site, expressed fears that the waxwork display would glorify the dictator and lead young people and neo-Nazis to pose for pictures with the faux-Hitler, The Daily Mail reported Monday.

"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, the memorial group for opponents of the Nazis.

A spokesman for Madame Tussauds said the museum will not allow visitors to take pictures with Hitler and the display will follow German laws that ban artwork glorifying Hitler.