“HITLER”

Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 May 1936, Page 5

“HITLER”

PLAY BANNED. SEQUEL TO GERMAN PROTEST. (Received Monday, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, Sunday. As the sequel to protests from the German Embassy, the Minister for the Interior banned a play entitled 1 ‘Hitler,” in which the author, Paul, Carnet, asserts the intention was to show Hitler that Frenchmen are not afraid of him. The place traces Hitler’s rise. Love interest is provided by Hitler’s reputed fiance, who is represented as a nonAryan, and deserts him. After £he scene in which Hitler shoots Roehm during the purge, Paul Caillet introduces an idealised Frenchman, who attempts to persuade Hitler to maintain the peace, despite General Goering urging that “he ought to have a nice little war with France. ” The curtain falls when _ the Frenchman cries: “You want war; you are going to liave it, but you’ll lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans,” whereupon Hitler angrily, telephones, ordering the reoccupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented .the Hitler-Hihdenburg interview in the play, in which Hitler, demanding the Chancellorship, says: “God entrusted me with a mission to restore, Germany.” Hindenburg retorts: “You have excellent connections. ”