A Wisconsin Hitler shrine will not have its June 25 grand opening after all.
Millard, Wisconsin dairy farmer and former Waffen SS soldier Theo Junker's (pictured above) plans for a fuehrer memorial have been junked by Walworth County bureaucrats.
Junker got his shrine built, but they won't come. He didn't think about obtaining the necessary permits to operate as either an assembly hall or a museum.
From AP via CBS 2 Chicago:
But Walworth County officials met with Junker on Thursday morning and persuaded him to keep the shrine closed, said Mike Cotter, county deputy corporation counsel. No one answered the phone at Junker's farm when The Associated Press called Thursday.
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(Cotter) warned Junker his farm couldn't accommodate the hundreds of visitors that could show up thanks to the media coverage. The place doesn't have parking for even 10 vehicles, Cotter said.
He also warned Junker the shrine could provoke retaliation.
"He understood that this had blossomed into something he was never expecting," Cotter said. "When he saw us today, he made the comment again about how famous he'd become. You could hear the phone ringing constantly. Constantly."
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