Hitler Praying

From Yahoo:
"Praying Hitler in ex-Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion"

 A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions. The work, "HIM" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has drawn many visitors since it was installed last month. It is visible only from a distance, and the artist doesn't make explicit what Hitler is praying for, but the broader point, organizers say, is to make people reflect on the nature of evil. In any case, some are angered by the statue's presence in such a sensitive site. One Jewish advocacy group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week called the statue's placement "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims." "As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth," the group's Israel director, Efraim Zuroff, said in a statement. The Warsaw ghetto was an area of the city which the Nazis sealed off after they invaded Poland. They forced Jews to live in cramped, inhuman conditions there as they awaited deportation to death camps. Many died from hunger or disease or were shot by the Germans before they could be transported to the camps.

^ I do not think this is a very good idea. It would be one thing if Hitler had actually prayed at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto and now there is a display showing it and another to re-invent history. This display is made to humanize Hitler and yet he was anything but. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/praying-hitler-ex-warsaw-ghetto-sparks-emotion-161124083.html