Uproar at "Hitler" Art

An artist who depicted Adolf Hitler as a pop-art style cartoon figure at an exhibition near the former Dachau concentration camp said he would close the show two weeks after it opened due to public outrage.
Walter Gaudnek said his brightly coloured artworks aim to provoke people by showing Hitler as a human rather than a monster, but Jewish community and local political leaders see the images as dangerous.
"I wanted to educate my students on the historical phenomenon of Hitler and show an aspect of him which has got lost over time," he told Reuters, after his paintings were printed in a Munich newspaper.
The bold, over-sized drawings show clusters of figures and swastika flags. In one, Hitler is seen speaking from a podium flanked by Nazi guards, while a girl with long blonde braids listens intently.
Gaudnek's art is on show at his small private gallery 25 km (15 miles) from the Dachau concentration camp memorial in southern Germany where some 32,000 people were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
It is illegal in Germany to display any artwork glorifying Hitler.
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