RIDICULING HITLER.
PLAY BANNED IN PARIS. AFTER PROTEST BY GERMAN EMBASSY. AUTHOR STATES HIS OBJECT. PARIS, May 24. As a sequel to a protest from the German Embassy, the Minister of the Interior has banned a play entitled “Hitler,” in which the author, M. Paul Caillet, asserts that his intention was to show Herr Hitler that Frenchmen are not afraid of him. The play traces Herr Hitler’s rise, and love interest is provided by Herr Hitler's reputed fiancee, who is represented as a non-Aryan and deserts him after a scene in which Herr Hitlei shoots Herr Roehm during the Nazi purge. M. Caillet introduces an idealised Frenchman who attempts to persuade Herr Hitler to maintain peace despite General Goering urging, “We ought to have a nice little war with France/' The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries, “You want war and you are going to have it, but you'll lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans,” whereupon Herr Hitler angrily telephones ordering the reoccupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented an interview between Herr Hitler and President Hindenburg in the play ‘in which Herr Hitler, demanding the Chancellorship, says, “God has entrusted me with a mission to restore Germany,” and Hindenburg retorts, “You have excellent connections.”
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Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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209RIDICULING HITLER. Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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