Guardian article

This is the new Hitler wax-work display in Berlin.
Looks like something out of a video game, right?
There is a "shader-esque" quality to this display which initially caught my eye.

Haunting.

Powerful.

And personally, a very tasteful way to remember a difficult part of German history without glorifying, or indeed editorializing, his legacy.

Hitler is no more a taboo subject in Germany. Look here...

I don't understand a lick of german, but that first video still cracked me up!

You still can't name your kid "hitler" in Germany though, right?

Hitler was his last name, why should you call a kid like that? ^^''

I seem to remember a regulation that prohibited "Hitler" from being any kind of name (first, last, middle name).

I also seem to remember that this was related to the curtailing of neo-nazi movements in Germany.

I could be WAY off base though.

and there are people still named hitler to this day. heck, slowly, people start to realize the truth ang finalyl get over it. will take some time but i think in a few years down the road, most of us are over him and remember not to go down that path without extrageragging anything related to him or the good things he has done (like highways and cheap cars and such)

I don't think they would change your name if you get born with the family name "hitler". But dunno, i'm not much into this topic ^^'

My now increasingly suspect recollection is that it was a policy on newborns... as in you could not put "Hitler" anywhere on the birth certificate.

Found this (finally!):

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/129196.html

The rule is alright. I wonder what parents would choose such a name for their children!?!? They must hate their children...