It is noticeable how enthusiasts like Tifft Fuller conspicuously failed to mention Oberammergau’s bad fairy – anti-Semitism. From the start, the Passion Play had portrayed the ‘murderers of Christ’ with a virulence that made it a propaganda gift to the Nazis. Here was a centuries-old peasant drama depicting, in Hitler’s words, ‘the whole mire and muck of Jewry’.
