HITLER AT OBERAMMERGAU
VISIT PAID TO THE PASSION PLAY PRESIDENT MIXES WITH CROWD. London, Aug. 14. Herr Adolf Hitler, German President, paid a surprise visit to the Passion Play, says Mr. Ward Price, writing from Oberammergau. He sat in the closely packed fourteenth row amid tourists, school teachers and others, thus, disposing of rumours that he is unwilling to mix with crowds unless closely guarded. As the Nazis are hostile to the Bavarian Catholics people are' asking whether
Herr Hitler’s visit and interest in the play indicates himself as personally sympathetic With Catholicism. After the play peasants wearing Tyro-
lesan costumes'shouted: “We want to see our leader!” Herr Hitler appeared on the balcony and raised his hand in salutation. He did not speak.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1934, Page 13
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