. . . There is Hitlerpornography. This is the lionization of the madman through recreation and, in this case, replication. Although this action (or aktion) figure is labled “war criminal” there is still an inescapable fetishistic rationale for its being in the marketplace. In Germany such iconography is outlawed, here it is absorbed into the morass of popular culture — and more, of toy culture. While it shouldn’t be outlawed, it shouldn’t have been made in the first place.
