Demonstrators carrying Nazi flags protested outside of a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank in Livingston County on Saturday.
According to The Detroit News, The performance was being staged at the American Legion post in Howell Township. A group of about ten protesters stood across the street and shouted slogans.
Bobby Brite, the American Legion post commander, posted video of the display and said it was disgusting.
“We do have a lot of Americans that have died to preserve our way of life,” Brite said. “Of course we believe in the Constitution. That being said, we are certainly against all acts of extremism, acts of hate, and hate groups.”
Police responded to the scene and said the group moved out of the Legion’s parking lot and across the street when asked. They said nothing physical transpired.
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl whose diary about life in hiding during the holocaust is one of the most influential pieces of literature of the last century. Frank was later caught and died at the age of 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
The masked Nazis at one point chanted, “Anne Frank was a whore.” Brite called them cowards who were seeking attention and should be ignored.
