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German theatre asks guests to wear swastikas for Hitler play

April 21, 2018 14:02·
A pamphlet giving details about a play named after Hitler's Mein Kampf

A pamphlet giving details about a play named after Hitler's Mein Kampf

German prosecutors on Wednesday cleared a performance of a satirical play named after Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" that promises free entry to spectators who wear a swastika.

The Konstanz Theatre's production of George Tabori's "Mein Kampf" opens on Friday night for a month-long run.

Though named after Hitler's infamous anti-Semitic manifesto, the play tells a fictional story of how a young Hitler is befriended by a Jewish man who puts him on his political path. (Felix Kaestle/dpa via AP) In this April 18, 2018 photo actor Peter Posniak in the role of Hitler performs during a rehearsal in Konstanz, Germany.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany "bears a responsibility to protect Jewish life" more than 70 years after the end of the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered 6 million European Jews. He died in 2007.

The theatre's policy was also criticised by Andreas Osner, the mayor of Konstanz, who said: "I don't even want to think about what could happen if far-Right visitors occupied the show and exploited the staging with the Nazi armbands". His father and other family members perished from the Auschwitz death camp.

Those who pay for a ticket will be asked to wear a Star of David "as a sign of solidarity with the victims of barbarism", the theater's operators wrote on their website.

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"Mein Kampf" is staged at at Theater Konstanz, in Constance, Germany.

The theater's management argued that the whole idea was just an attempt to show how easily people can be corrupted and that the play is a stinging parody of Hitler's early years.

"The theater is the only place where such a discussion can take place immediately", he told dpa news agency. Under German law, publicly displaying the National Socialist symbol is illegal, with very few exceptions. A number of people registered complaints with the town's prosecutors, that chose this week which the theory collapsed under the saying of artistic flexibility.

However, the local German-Israeli Society and the Judeo-Christian Society have described the offer as "tasteless" in a joint letter, calling on the public to boycott the play.

Nix explained about four dozen people have signed up to work with the swastika, meaning there will be a handful in any of rsquo & those drama;s 14 performances.

The theater said it is planning strict security checks at the entrance, and as people exit to ensure the armbands are returned.

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