Nazi selfies ‘sickening’

AN Indonesian visual effects museum that encouraged visitors to take selfies with a waxwork of Hitler against a giant image of the Auschwitz extermination camp has removed the exhibit after protests.

Warli, the De Mata Trick Eye Museum’s marketing officer, says the statue was removed following news story highlighting outrage from Jewish and rights groups.

Human Rights Watch had denounced the exhibit as “sickening” and the Los Angelesbased Simon Wiesenthal Centre which campaigns against Holocaust denial and antiSemitism, had demanded its immediate removal.

The museum, which had the Hitler figure on display since 2014, initially defended the exhibit as “fun”.