Demonstrators wave Nazi flags outside local theater performance of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Michigan

A group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Livingston County, Michigan, in a display of antisemitism.

A group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Livingston County, Michigan, in a display of antisemitism. Several masked men showed up waving Nazi flags and reportedly shouted antisemitic and racist slurs outside the American Legion Post 141 in Howell on Saturday during the play, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ. “People were shocked. They were appalled,” Army veteran Bobby Brite told WXYZ. “Everything you would expect.” Brite said many of the 75 people who watched the play were afraid to leave the building and had to be escorted to their cars. “Nobody in America should feel like that,” he said. The Fowlerville Community Theatre, which put on the production, said in a statement the play “centers on real people who lost their lives in the Holocaust” and added the cast and crew “endeavored to tell their story with as much realism as possible.”