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Radio: Some shops selling models offer figures of Nazis

Some Czech shops selling things for modellers offer figures of Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, Radiozurnal station of public Czech Radio (CRo) reported Monday.

The shop owners say they sell the figures as part of a collection of World War Two leading figures and that this is not meant as propagation of Nazism.

The co-owner of one such shop, Matej Pecka, has decided to withdraw the figure of World War Two Bohemia and Moravia Reichsprotektor Heydrich in reaction to CRo's notice....
Read entire article at Prague Daily Monitor