Madame-Tussauds in Hitler row.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....oing-Nazi-salute.html

Should Tussauds put certain restrictions on it's customers, or should they display a notice outside such as,

Warning: "Some exhibits may cause offence to certain people of a sensitive nature"?

[Sqad]

Unless I have missed the point, this is HITLER and that was the Nazi's salute, so what is the problem?

[CanisMajor]

tricky one, I can't see how they can stop their visitors posing for pictures.

[rojash]

...but it wasn't the exhibits that caused offence was it? It was other customers, so the message should read "Some customers may cause offence to certain people of a sensitive nature".

And let's face it, that's a warning that could be posted in just about any pub, restaurant, or fast-food outlet.

[Old_Geezer]

Notices stating the obvious are not good use of resource.
Slow news days can generate daft stories though.

[DrFilth]

notice the way the paper says

>> This was the sight which greeted an Israeli couple on a visit to Madame Tussauds in London.

The unnamed couple, who live in London with their baby son, visited Madame Tussauds this month, <<

[Ankou]

just two people stumbling accross those two posing, and found offence, out of the 50,000 visitors evey week.

"staff would have asked the tourists to stop if they had seen them performing the Nazi salute."

its a non story.

[pa___ul3]

what about those who grab Kylie's bum? Is that not offensive?... Understandable but still potentially offensive!
The point is you can't account for every eventuality, sure the Londonish/Israeli couple should realise this, their beef should be with the 2 kids.

[Brenden]

Do your homework before visiting any museum, if you do not like what you see do'nt go - simple.

[ehtubert]

At Madame Tussauds nobody grabs Kylie's bum, they grab wax. With regards to the Nazi salute, I would find that offensive anywhere, so the problem is not confined to a wax figure cabinet, but to distasteful people with little sense for history and decency.

[askyourgran]

If only there was a lifelike model of Sasha Distel.

[jno]

"the tourists' behaviour, which they described as 'an unequivocal demonstration of anti-semitism and bigotry'."

Sorry, but that's nonsense. It was an unequivocal demonstration of stupidity - I wonder if any of those posing had any grandparents killed in the war? But I'd have to have a lot more evidence before I was persuaded that saluting a waxwork proved you were anti-semitic.

[emmie]

stupidity is right, but Madame Tussauds could be a little more helpful. Put a sign up if need be. i confess i didn't like the picture when i saw it, and might be offended had my parents, grandparents been murdered in the death camps. And to the best of my knowledge the Nazi salute is banned in Germany, as many don't wish to be reminded of that time i'm sure.

[sandyRoe]

Steve 5, what were Hitler's good points?

[jno]

he liked dogs, didn't he?

[emmie]

for all the books, articles, and documentaries, i have read and watched over the years, and indeed there has been a lot, i cannot see that Hitler had one redeeming feature, fascinating in a ghoulish sort of way perhaps.

[Kromovaracun]

Had the attempt on Hitler's life in '38 succeeded, he would very likely be remembered as the second Bismarck. If you'd like to see how actual academic historians view the subject, I strongly reccomend Gellately's "Backing Hitler" as an introduction to the considerable evidence that the regime was genuinely popular among Germans. It appealed to extremely common bigotries that had been exacerbated by Depression (many of which I think you can convincingly say are parallelled in a different form by plenty of sections of society today), and it was elected on the pretty open promise to break an fairly unpopular (and to an extent unwanted) democratic system.

That does not mean Hitler was a 'good thing', before people start putting words in my mouth. It just means that the common understanding of Hitler and his regime being an unwanted and illegitimate imposition on the German people is just too simple and fatally undermines our ability to understand it properly.

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As regards the link, I agree - it's a non-story. The people just seem to be fooling around with the model - which is the only reason anyone goes to Madame Tussauds.

[IdontBelieveIt]

He was not not a sblack as the majority paint him.



Yes Steve, the poor soul was just misunderstood.

[DTCwordfan]

His watercolours?

Dont think he was the Nazi who came up with the concept of the London Underground Tube Map - which that portrayal was one of their legacies to us today as our folk took aboard the idea.....