Washington Post: Johannes Heesters, singer-actor who performed in Nazi Germany, dies at 108

Johannes Heesters, a Dutch-born singer and actor who made his name performing in Adolf Hitler’s Germany and was dogged in his long career by controversy over his Nazi-era past, died Dec. 24 at a hospital in Starnberg, Germany. He was 108.


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