CATHERINE HICKLEY; Bloomberg News A waxwork model of Adolf Hitler that was decapitated by a visitor on the day a new branch of Madame Tussauds opened in Berlin will go back on display as soon as it is repaired, the museum said in a statement. The attacker, identified only as Frank L. of the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, told the daily BZ tabloid that he was outraged the statue was on display so close to the Holocaust memorial on the Unter den Linden boulevard. Friends dared him to decapitate it over a beer at his local pub, the newspaper said. “Despite this incident, Madame Tussauds will display the figure of Adolf Hitler in the exhibition again,” the statement said. “Adolf Hitler represents a decisive chapter of German history that cannot be denied. The Hitler figure was developed with a great deal of research and...
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