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Just What We Need, Another Hitler Tourist Attraction

Where: Ukraine
January 31, 2011 at 1:16 PM | by | Comments (0)

Ukraine is obviously needing a little help in the tourism department. First, it has the bright idea to give tours of Chernobyl, and now the country is banking on a Hitler attraction to bring in the tourists.

Plans are in the works to turn Wehrwolf, Hitler's Eastern Front military headquarters near Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, into a museum. The facility is scheduled to open May 9, the anniversary of Victory Day over Nazism.

Hitler's headquarters consist of 20 wooden cottages and barracks as well as three bunkers. It was constructed from September 1941 to April 1942 by more than 10,000 Soviet war prisoners and about 1,000 locals. Around 2,000 of the workers died and another 4,000 were killed.

The museum is supposed to be a memorial to the victims of fascism, but since you can visit concentration camps and other Holocaust museums, we wonder if this is really needed. There's only so much Hitler that tourists can take.

[Photo: cliff1066™]

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