German prosecutors clear 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 theater in the Bavarian lakeside town of Constance says it aims to show how easily people can be corrupted but the approach sparked numerous legal complaints.
Local prosecutors, however, say the premiere could go ahead on Friday, which marks Hitler’s birthday in 1889, as well as the controversial swastika campaign.
The theater says on its website that those who pay for a ticket will be asked to wear a Star of David “as a sign of solidarity with the victims of Nazi barbarism.”
Under German law, publicly displaying swastikas and other Nazi symbols is illegal, unless it is done as part of an artistic performance covered by constitutional guarantees of free speech.
— AFP
Picture taken on April 17, 2018 at the theatre in Constance, southern Germany, shows a poster advertising a theater play named after Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ written by George Tabori and staged by Serdar Somuncu. (AFP/dpa/Felix Kästle)
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