No one’s pressuring me to take a position on the wax Hitler beheading at Madame Tussaud’s museum in Berlin. But after about 15 seconds of deep introspective thought, I’m all for it. I wonder if Hitler’s head is now sitting in a pool of beer on the floor of some German frat house. Above is a Reuters photograph of a Tussaud’s museum employee assigned to guard Hitler’s bunker after the decapitation. At this point, what is the guard protecting? Hitler’s hat was already squirreled away as a precaution. Those dusty books don’t look like they are worth stealing, but is there a fear of an old fashioned Nazi book burning (with fake Nazi books)? (As an aside, if you have not seen Jeff Krulik’s phenomenal documentary, “Hitler’s Hat,” about U.S. troops who snagged Hitler’s top hat as a war souvenir, you MUST see it). This entry was...
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