Hitler is back in Germany

Guardian article

This is the new Hitler wax-work display in Berlin.
Looks like something out of a video game, right?
There is a "shader-esque" quality to this display which initially caught my eye.

Haunting.

Powerful.

And personally, a very tasteful way to remember a difficult part of German history without glorifying, or indeed editorializing, his legacy.

Hitler is no more a taboo subject in Germany. Look here...

I don't understand a lick of german, but that first video still cracked me up!

You still can't name your kid "hitler" in Germany though, right?

Hitler was his last name, why should you call a kid like that? ^^''

I seem to remember a regulation that prohibited "Hitler" from being any kind of name (first, last, middle name).

I also seem to remember that this was related to the curtailing of neo-nazi movements in Germany.

I could be WAY off base though.

and there are people still named hitler to this day. heck, slowly, people start to realize the truth ang finalyl get over it. will take some time but i think in a few years down the road, most of us are over him and remember not to go down that path without extrageragging anything related to him or the good things he has done (like highways and cheap cars and such)

I don't think they would change your name if you get born with the family name "hitler". But dunno, i'm not much into this topic ^^'

My now increasingly suspect recollection is that it was a policy on newborns... as in you could not put "Hitler" anywhere on the birth certificate.

Found this (finally!):

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/129196.html

The rule is alright. I wonder what parents would choose such a name for their children!?!? They must hate their children...

with some names, you think parrents hate their kids...

atomfried von uranium... i mean, seriously...

american stars are like the sh!t: they call their kdis apple or the name of the city they were impregnated... i would never do that to my kids... if my mom did that, i would be named "unter der autobahnbrücke zwischn imst und landeck" and thats a riddiculous name XD

Please forgive my lack of knowledge, is it just me or is that hair style ever so slightly emo?

Something like this?

http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&q=hitler+emo&btnG=Bilder-Suche&gbv=2

"Flock of Hitlers" anyone?

"And I raaaaannn.... I ran so far away. I couldn't get away!"
--Poland, 1933

[OT]It is sad that Germany must live under the shadow of Hitler. Innocent people do not deserve to be associated with the guilty acts of those who came before them. We should all greive that we are part of the same human race as such evil people. But if you see history as I do, it seems not to be corrupted most by evil people, but rather by evil ideas.

The most shocking thing about reading Mein Kampf was the intelligence and sanity of this man..he was only the product of some very corrupt ideas which created a culture of death.

As a Christian I believe that Hitler burns in hell right now, what does it mean? If Hitler burns in hell, but his ideas live on, isnt it the ideas which should burn? It makes me look very closely at the origin ideas, and how people can rationalize things like 'the final solution'

I'm curious: politics and morality aside, do you think that screenshot looks like something from Maya or a AAA 4.0 shader engine?

Maybe of interested for you:
A visitor of that Madame Tussauds exhibition tore off hitler's head.

German news:
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/nachrichten/politik/beitrag_jsp/key=news7663969.html

jaja, die kreuzberger... und da sage noch einer, gamer könnten nicht realität und kunst auseinander halten.
im hamburger panoptikum hat sich aber noch keiner an die stabselite heran gewagt... was lernen wir daraus? nicht die figur, sondern der werberummel und die medienpräsenz führen erst zu der kontroverse.

omfg :)))))))

I read. And apparently it was the second person to see it too!

LOL

It is a little bit ironic. Some popular visitor refered to it as the first successful assassination on Hitler. I guess that is one way you could put it.
As far as I have heard, the entire exhibition has been a farce so far. They put up the german ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl, to which he shortly afterwards stated that he did not even agree to that.

from what i think, kohl does not need to agree. he is a public payed person and does not have the right to be that private, specially after he is such a betraying dumbass

Lol, yeah I agree... what legal right to complain does he have anyways? It's like pictures or movies that are taken from him during his time in office.. it's not like those aren't public domain in the same way.

Today I read in the "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" (WAZ) that somebody has hit his head down and now the table is empty.

actually he seems to have a right to do so... as it reads in a german newspaper: