A statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan shows Adolf Hitler praying on his knees in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Dec. 28, 2012.


I'm not exactly sure who ever got the brilliant idea of thinking that a statue of Hitler - even on his knees, praying - would be a great addition to the ghetto of Warsaw. But whatever drugs were used on the occasion must have been quite potent.

One Jewish advocacy group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week
called the statue's placement "a senseless provocation which insults the
memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims."





"As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that
they be wiped off the face of the earth," the group's Israel director,
Efraim Zuroff, said in a statement.

However, many others are
praising the artwork, saying it has a strong emotional impact. And
organizers defend putting it on display in the former ghetto.




Fabio Cavallucci, director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, which
oversaw the installation, said, "There is no intention from the side of
the artist or the centre to insult Jewish memory."




"It's an artwork that tries to speak about the situation of hidden evil everywhere," he said.

It's Hitler. In the ghetto. I suppose there's a time and place for everything. This is not it!

"Every criminal was once a tender, innocent and defenseless child," the center said in a commentary on the work.

So what?! Is that a reason to put up statues of Idi Amin next?