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==== Radebeul ==== [[File:Villa Shatterhand.jpg|thumb|right|220px|May's Villa Shatterhand]] [[File:Karl May Museum Baerenfett.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Villa Bärenfett]] The [[Karl May Museum]] is in the Villa Shatterhand in Radebeul and contains artifacts from May's life as well as from life on the [[American frontier]] and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] life of that era.<ref name=NY>{{cite news|last1=Galchen|first1=Rivka|title=Wild West Germany|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/wild-west-germany|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2 April 2012|language=en}}</ref> It was founded in 1928 by May's widow and an eccentric Austrian named [[:de:Patty Frank|Ernst Tobis]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |author=Eddy, Melissa | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/world/europe/germanys-fascination-with-american-old-west-native-american-scalps-human-remains.html |work= New York Times |title= Germany's fascination with American old West, Native American scalps human remains |date= 17 August 2014 |access-date= 3 May 2018}}</ref> When the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] took over Germany, they appropriated the museum and the image of May, and were especially focused on [[swastika]]s that appeared in some of the Native American artwork. Hitler Youth were encouraged to visit the museum and hear stories from Tobis.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Penny|first1=H. Glenn|title=Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians Since 1800|date=2013|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=9781469607641|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HV4DAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|language=en|page=166}}</ref> After World War II, the original museum remained in [[East Germany]] and a replica was built in [[Bamberg]] in [[West Germany]].<ref name=Weaver>{{cite book|last1=Weaver|first1=Jace|title=Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture|date=2001|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806133522|language=en|url=https://archive.org/details/otherwordsameric0000weav|url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|73}} From 1956 to 1984, the museum in Radebeul was called the "Indianer Museum", because May's books were suppressed by the East German government; its original name was restored in 1986.<ref name=NY/> Around 2010, controversy arose over [[Scalping|scalps]], some of them from Native Americans, that were in the museum's collection.<ref name=NYT/>
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