A man entered Berlin's Madam Tussauds wax museum Saturday morning and "made for the [Adolf] Hitler figure," tearing the head off the life-size statue of the Nazi dictator.Police arrested the 41-year-old, who told officers he was protesting the figure's inclusion in the museum.
The police also said they are investigating the man for causing bodily harm to a manager, who attempted to stop him from damaging the statue. He will likely be released later today.
The Berlin branch of the Madame Tussauds wax museum opened for the first time Saturday, and museum official Nathalie Ruoss said the organizers would have to decide what to do about the statue on Monday.
The effigy was already controversial; the German media criticized its presence, whereas others said it was impossible to ignore the Nazi head's role in German history.
It depicts a sullen-faced Hitler sitting at the desk in his dimly-lit bunker shortly before his 1945 suicide.
Other German figures in the museum include scientist Albert Einstein and composer Johan Sebastian Bach.
