Berlin - Forlorn German fans of Michael Jackson with nowhere else to turn to have paid their respects at his wax effigy in a Berlin tourist attraction, filling 200 pages of a condolence book by Saturday.

Stephan Heinze, spokesman for the Berlin branch of Madame Tussaud's, said each page contained four to five memorial messages.

The waxworks museum is just across the street from the US embassy and another Berlin building forever associated with Jackson: the Adlon Hotel, where fans watched in horror as he weirdly dangled his baby son over an outside balustrade in 2002.

Fans left bunches of flowers or lighted candles outside the museum, which placed the Jackson effigy in the foyer after the singer's Thursday death so that visitors could see it without buying an entrance ticket.

A main German music retailer, Media-Saturn, meanwhile said some of its German stores had run out of Jackson CDs as a rush of grieving fans snapped up the last copies on sale.(dpa)