BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhuanet) -- A German court Tuesday fined a former cop 900 euros ($1,600) for knocking off the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler in a Berlin museum last year.
The 42-year-old Frank Lachner decapitated the likeness of the Nazi dictator on the opening day of the Madame Tussauds museum last July.
The man said the move followed a bet he took with friends a day before the museum's opening and was carried out "to save face." He said he and his friends had all thought the exhibition with the controversial Hitler waxwork was "completely inappropriate."
The man said he strongly objected to the Nazi leader being on display just 500 metres away from the German capital's Holocaust memorial.
Madame Tussauds said the museum avoided politics, arguing Hitler stood for a significant part of German history and his waxwork therefore had a legitimate part in the exhibition.
The court said the man had to pay 15 euros every day for the next 60 days and that the fine had been halved because of his financial circumstances.
(Agencies)
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