The marketing officer of the De Mata Trick Eye museum in Yogyakarta said the statue was removed on Friday night following an Associated Press story highlighting outrage from Jewish and rights groups. The museum, which has waxworks of about 80 famous people, had displayed the Hitler figure since 2014. It initially defended the exhibit as “fun” and said it was one of the most popular waxworks with visitors to the infotainment-style museum in the central Java city. On Sunday, the space at the museum occupied by Hitler was empty and the image of Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people were exterminated by the Nazi regime, was gone. In 2014, a music video made by Indonesian pop stars as a tribute to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto stirred outrage with its Nazi overtones.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 06:22 UTC