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A favourite of Hitler, Heesters was born in the Netherlands in 1903 and made his name performing in Nazi Germany.

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Dutch singer who performed for Adolf Hitler returns to home stage at age 104

Several dozen people protested outside a theater in the Netherlands on Saturday where a singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in his native country for the first time in four decades.

Johannes Heesters, 104, has been a popular figure in German-language cabaret since the 1930s, earning him the billing "the Netherlands' most durable product."

He was never accused of being a propagandist or anything other than an actor who was willing to perform for the Nazis and the Allies allowed him to continue his career after the war. But in his native country he is viewed by some as irredeemable.

"He kept singing for the Nazi regime ... and he earned millions," said Piet Schouten, representative of a committee formed to protest Heesters' performance.

"Those are facts and we have a problem with that on behalf of all the victims" he told national broadcaster NOS.

In Heesters' previous attempt to perform in the Netherlands, in 1964, he was booed off the stage in Amst

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2009. H. In: Bock, H. and Bergfelder, T. ed. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 178-220. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455659-014

"H" In The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema edited by Hans-Michaell Bock and Tim Bergfelder, 178-220. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455659-014

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Johannes Heesters

Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer (1903–2011)

Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as JohannesHeesters, was a Dutch-German actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage with a career dating back to the 1920s. He worked as an actor until his death and is one of the oldest performing entertainers in history, performing shortly before his death at the age of 108. Heesters was almost exclusively active in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s and became a film star in Nazi Germany, which later led to controversy in his native country.^[1] He was able to maintain his popularity in Germany in the decades until his death.

Early life

Heesters was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, the youngest of four sons. His father Jacobus Heesters (1865–1946) was a salesman and his mother Geertruida Jacoba van den Heuvel (1866–1951), a homemaker.

Heesters was fluent in German from an early age, having lived for s