text: Controversial operetta singer Heesters back in the Netherlands after 45 years
  
  February 16, 2008 
  
  For the first time in over 45 years, Dutch operetta singer Johannes Heesters sings in his home town of Amersfoort today. Heesters is, at age 104, the oldest performing artist in the world. Despite his advanced age, he is still active in Germany and Austria both on stage and television. 
  Heesters has been controversial since he moved to Germany in the 1930s. He continued to perform in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, and was accused of paying a visit to perform at the Dachau concentration camp. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler attended his shows more than once. 
  Hostile attitudes toward Heesters did not ebb after the end of the war. In 1963 he was cast in a Dutch production of "The Sound of Music" as Captain von Trapp, but the Dutch audience boycotted the show. He went back to Germany, but is still a Dutch citizen.
tokens: Controversial operetta singer Heesters back in the Netherlands after 45 years February 16 , 2008 For the first time in over 45 years , Dutch operetta singer Johannes Heesters sings in his home town of Amersfoort today . Heesters is , at age 104 , the oldest performing artist in the world . Despite his advanced age , he is still active in Germany and Austria both on stage and television . Heesters has been controversial since he moved to Germany in the 1930s . He continued to perform in Nazi Germany during the Second World War , and was accused of paying a visit to perform at the Dachau concentration camp . Nazi leader Adolf Hitler attended his shows more than once . Hostile attitudes toward Heesters did not ebb after the end of the war . In 1963 he was cast in a Dutch production of " The Sound of Music " as Captain von Trapp , but the Dutch audience boycotted the show . He went back to Germany , but is still a Dutch citizen .
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