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Notes » February 2004
Tussaud's Travesty
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is one of the attractions at the Peak Tower on Hong Kong Island.
I haven't visited for lack of interest; if you've seen one wax museum, you've seen them all.
However, my wife had never been to one, so when her niece from Canada visited, they went to the wax works.
She took lots of photos. The quality of the reproductions ranged from good to mediocre. Sculptures of local celebrities were the best.
The most questionable figure in the museum was found in the Hall of the Great People. This gallery housed likenesses of notable people such as Winston Churchill, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Albert Einstein and others.
But what possessed the curators to include Adolf Hitler? I don't care that they made a wax likeness of the megalomaniac, but it would be better placed in a separate gallery.
Given the outrage that ensued when Izzue came up with its Nazi-inspired clothing line, I'm amazed no one has raised a stink about this.
Madame Tussaud's could include Hitler in a gallery of the Greatest Human Monsters. In it they could add sculptures of Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Kim Il Sung, Radovan Karadzic, Charles Manson and every serial killer ever caught, to name but a few.
Keeping Hitler in the Hall of the Great People is a travesty.
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