Several weeks after a life-sized wax statue of Adolf Hitler was attacked and beheaded by a disgusted German man, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum returned the repaired statue to its Berlin location. A recent poll found that a majority of Germans approve of the return.

Madame Tussaud said its Berlin display of Hitler seated in his bunker was "a legitimate part of show" because he "stands for an important part of German history."

On July 6, a 41-year-old Berlin resident and former police offer, apparently outraged by the statue of the man many consider to be the most evil human being in history, scuffled with two guards at the wax museum and succeeded in tearing the head off the statue.

According to museum employees, the beheader was the second man to enter the museum in that day’s grand opening, in which the statue was the most controversial exhibit. Hitler, the chancellor-turned dictator of Germany who led the world into its most disastrous war, is most remembered as the man who ordered and successfully led the mass-extermination of some 6 million Jews and 4 million other “undesirables,” including communists, Gypsies, homosexuals and people with disabilities.

A spokesperson for Madame Tussaud's said that the Berlin display of Hitler seated in his bunker is "a legitimate part of show" because he "stands for an important part of German history."

Last Saturday, as the relatively few Jews left in the German capital celebrated their holy Sabbath, the world-famous chain of wax museums repaired and returned the statue of Hitler to its former place and offered no apologies for its actions. 

Rather than removing the exhibit, Tussaud’s has decided to protect the Hitler statue by banning entry of visitors into the wax bunker.

Although the inclusion of the figure sparked some controversy in the German media on the eve of the Berlin museum’s opening, an opinion poll conducted the day of the statue’s return found that 62 percent of Germans support the reign of the wax fuhrer.