Son Forced To Remove Statue Of Dead Father Due To Hitler Resemblance

This statue was apparently too close for comfort.

A German man was forced to remove a commemorative statue of his late father after critics complained that the monument was a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler.

The tiff broke out recently in Weil im Schönbuch in Baden-Württemberg after a man named Oliver — whose last name was withheld — erected the wooden sculpture on the grave of his dad, Edwald E., a carpenter who died in 2013, Bild reported.

The controversial doppelgänger bore führer-evoking facial hair and a soccer jersey engraved with the number 88, which is code for “Heil Hitler” in the neo-Nazi movement, as “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

Concerned citizens complained about the Nazi facsimile to the mayor, who promptly had the statue taken down at the cemetery but permitted Oliver to keep it on his own lawn.

Read more at NY Post.

{Matzav.com}