Ananova:

People living in Hitler's home town are furious after a neighbouring town erected a sculpture of a naked man pointing his bum at them.

The £200,000 sculpture, erected in the Bavarian town of Simbach on the German-Austrian border, shows a man riding on the top of a giant fish.

But officials in neighbouring Braunau, in Austria, are taking personally the fact that the man's naked bum is pointing in their direction.

Deputy Mayor Helmut Bogner, said: "This creature has his butt straight in our face. We, the people of Braunau, don't appreciate this gesture and we want it moved."

Richard Findl, mayor of Simbach, said of the work of art by sculptor Dominik Dengl: "I cannot understand the criticism. It is exaggerated."