A group of “self-identified Nazis” waving swastika flags showed up outside a Michigan community theater‘s performance of The Diary of Anne Frank on Saturday, according to locals. The performance was held at an American Legion building in Livingston County. Bobby Brite, the Legion post‘s past commander, captured video of the masked hooligans holding flags emblazoned with Nazi symbols outside of the venue. “This is the kind of crap you have to deal with,” said Brite, who encouraged people to “just drive on by, ignore ‘em.” Inside, the Fowlerville Community Theatre performed the famed adaptation of a young Jewish girl’s record of life in hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. Roughly 10 people were in the group, seemingly in their 20s, Brite said. “This production centers on real people who lost their lives in the Holocaust, we have endeavored to tell their story with as much realism as possible,” said the community theatre, in a statement posted to Facebook. “On Saturday evening, things became more real than we expected.” Legion staff moved the demonstrators off their property and the audience was notified of their presence at intermission, but the show went on.
