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Selfies wax museum Hitler exhibit sparks outrage
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A leading Jewish organization has called for an Indonesian waxworks museum to remove a Nazi exhibit at which visitors take selfies with a Hitler figure standing before an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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The waxworks and visual effects museum in the city of Yogyakarta has defended the Hitler waxwork as "fun" for teenagers.
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From http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41953468 :
A woman poses with Adolf Hitler waxwork in an Indonesian museum
AFP
Pictures like these have provoked outrage across the globe
Adolf Hitler waxwork removed from Indonesian museum
A life-size model of Adolf Hitler used for "selfies" by visitors to an Indonesian museum has been removed.
Pictures shared on social media show people grinning as they pose with the Nazi leader in front of an image of the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.
It was only when the international community reacted with outrage that the De ARCA Statue Art Museum realised it had caused any offence.
The museum, in Jogjakarta, Java, said it had only wanted to educate.
"We don't want to attract outrage," the museum's operations manager, Jamie Misbah, told news agency AFP.
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A life-size model of Adolf Hitler used for "selfies" by visitors to an Indonesian museum has been removed.
Pictures shared on social media show people grinning as they pose with the Nazi leader in front of an image of the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.
It was only when the international community reacted with outrage that the De ARCA Statue Art Museum realised it had caused any offence.
The museum, in Jogjakarta, Java, said it had only wanted to educate.
"We don't want to attract outrage," the museum's operations manager, Jamie Misbah, told news agency AFP.
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