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![[red field, white circle centered, black pretzel]](../images/f/fic$prod1.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 16 May 2009 |
![[red field, white circle centered, black bratwurst]](../images/f/fic$prod2.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 16 May 2009 |
![[red field, white circle centered, black pretzel]](../images/f/fic$prod3.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 16 May 2009 |
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On the BBC news today, I saw a report on the opening of the stage-musical "The Producers" in Berlin. Based on a very funny 1960s movie by Mel Brooks, it is about a pair of New Yorkers who try to defraud theatre investors by embezzling the funds they are raising in order to mount the worst Broadway show ever made, a light-hearted musical biography of Adolf Hitler. The reporter noted that, as most public display of NSDAP symbols is banned in Germany, the (actual!) producers decorated the outside of the theater with Nazi-flag analogues, featuring pretzels and bratwurst in place of the swastikas. (The props used in the actual show were however unaffected.)
In the footage I saw, the (somewhat oddly rendered) pretzels were used on normal flags and on two kinds
of vertical banners, the bratwurst on normal flags only.
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