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(JTA) -- A giant billboard showing Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute located along a major highway in Thailand was covered up.
The billboard, which for two weeks had advertised a waxworks museum set to open in the coastal city of Pattaya, read in Thai "Hitler is not dead."
It was covered Sunday after about 100 complaints and a protest letter from the Israeli Embassy, as well as a complaint from the German Embassy, according to the Bangkok Post.
Louis Tussaud's Waxworks managing director Somporn Naksuetrong apologized for the billboard.
"It is totally unacceptable to have such a monster like Adolf Hitler on public display," Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told the Bangkok Post. "How this could happen is beyond my understanding and comprehension."
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