Hitler Action Figure
American doll-maker Mike Fosella has sparked controversy by unveiling a line of Nazi Action figurines. So far Adolf Hitler and Joseph Mengele, the concentration camp doctor dolls have been produced. Fosella plans further figures of Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler and propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
Ken Jacobson, director of the American Anti-Defamation League, told the New York Daily News: “The people who are most interested in these things are probably the ones with sinister intention. The collectors’ items are said to be accurate to the smallest detail, with resin cast heads and plastic bodies with enough pivot points to allow them to give Nazi-style salutes.
The entrepreneur came under fire for his foot-high dolls which were unveiled at New York’s toy fair in 2001.
Joyce Mike, president of the Academy of American Doll Artists, said:
“I think overall, what he’s doing is gratuitous sensationalism.” (Ya think?!)
Fosella, of Pound Ridge, near New York, said he was only making 50 figures of each leading Nazi, as well as a model SS officer with a reproduction uniform. “To me, it’s an art form. They don’t glorify Hitler or Nazis. If I were
mass marketing them at the toy store, that would be another story.”
The Hitler doll was modeled on a picture of the Nazi leader leaving Landsburg prison in Munich. The doll is shown holding a copy of MeinKampf, the book he wrote while in prison, emblazoned with a swastika
No word on if the “accurate” doll only has one testicle.
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This is a disgrace…
I’m going to get one of each. Thanks for letting me know about them!
Awesome… will be getting them
This is an old news! Mike Fosella is not the only one in USA to produce the German War Criminals. There is also a company named ITPT ( In the Past Toys) in New York and another company named DID (Dragon in Dream) in China. This company has a series which is named 3R and she produced Hitler, Henrich Himmler and their upcoming figure is Reinhard Heydrich. The website is http://www.3reich.us.
Even dolls cause concern these days, unreal! Guys (and Jews) get a life!!!
One testicle? My, newspapers in South Carolina have gotten racier (and funnier) than I remember from when I lived there!
Maybe it’s something to do with local-boy-made-good Ben Bernanke, who I have heard is similarly deficient (I’ve personally examined neither him nor Hitler). I would, however, buy a Ben Bernanke doll, to keep with my Hitler and other such dolls.
I hope this Comment doesn’t get suppressed for aping the content of the article being commented on!
Does he have a web site? I want to order but can’t find contact info for Mike.