A stage version of Hitler’s rambling manifesto is attracting big audiences, months before its copyright expires and a new academic edition is published
It has been used for everything from business management manual to toilet paper. But while Mein Kampf has served many purposes, as a pick-up device it is a definite flop.
“I’ve tried the line ‘Do you want to read Mein Kampf with me?’, but I can tell you it doesn’t work,” said Alon Kraus, the son of Holocaust survivors and one of six protagonists in a bold stage version of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto playing to packed houses across the German-speaking world. A re-enactment of the 44-year-old Israeli lawyer’s real-life attempts to seduce a German tourist on the Sinai peninsula by reading extracts from Hitler’s rambling racist discourse raises the loudest – albeit hesitant – laughs.
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