German prosecutors said today (April 18, 2018) that they would not investigate a theatre offering free tickets to people who wear a swastika during a play after Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, because of artistic freedom laws, according to the Euro News website.
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the southern city of Constance initially said authorities would launch an investigation after receiving multiple complaints. Under German law, publicly displaying the Nazi symbol is illegal.
Written by the late Hungarian playwright George Tabori, Mein Kampf tells the story of a young Adolf Hitler in pre-World War I Vienna, Austria. Penniless and hoping to get into the Academy of Fine Arts, Hitler stays at a boarding house for poor men where he meets an old Jewish man who helps him achieve his political aspirations.
The theatre in Constance is offering free admission to spectators willing to wear an armband with a Nazi swastika given to them upon arrival. Spectators who choose to pay will be asked to wear a Star of David "as a sign of solidarity with the victims of the National Socialist (Nazi) barbarism," the theatre wrote on its website.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment