{"id":130476,"date":"2017-11-12T02:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130476"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T07:31:59","slug":"indonesia-museum-removes-hitler-display-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/12\/indonesia-museum-removes-hitler-display-after-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia museum removes Hitler display after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_130477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130477\" style=\"width: 957px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130477\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"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. (Photo: De MATA &amp; De ARCA\/Twitter)\" width=\"957\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum.jpg 957w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/De-Mata-Trick-Eye-Museum-817x1024.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeMATA_DeARCA\/status\/652712988604936194\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeMATA_DeARCA\">De MATA &amp; De ARCA\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>The De Mata Trick Eye Museum&#8217;s marketing officer said the statue was removed Friday night following an Associated Press story highlighting outrage from Jewish and rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch had denounced the exhibit as \u201csickening\u201d and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which campaigns against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, had demanded its immediate removal.<\/p>\n<p>The museum, which has waxworks of about 80 famous people, had the Hitler figure on display since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It initially defended the exhibit as \u201cfun\u201d and said it was one of the most popular waxworks with visitors to the infotainment-style museum in the central Java city of Yogyakarta.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time Nazism and its symbols have been normalized or even idealized in Indonesia, the world&#8217;s most populous Muslim nation and home to a tiny Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>A Nazi-themed cafe in the city of Bandung where waiters wore SS uniforms caused anger abroad for several years until reportedly closing its doors at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, a music video made by Indonesian pop stars as a tribute to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto stirred outrage with its Nazi overtones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 An Indonesian visual effects museum that encouraged visitors to take selfies with a waxwork of Hitler against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":130477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[32548,32547,32546,456],"class_list":["post-130476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-de-mata-trick-eye-museum","tag-hitler-display","tag-indonesia-museum","tag-protest","mauthors-stephen-wright","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}