La ordin, Führer!

A play about the psychological mechanisms that make the criminal ideologies of our history possible. Hypnotized by the Führer and Nazi ideology, an Austrian enlists herself as a volunteer supervisor in a Nazi extermination camp. Her fanaticism is indestructible, despite the atrocities she witnesses.

A victim of Goebbels’ invented propaganda, she personifies a nation seduced by a monster. She believes that the invasion equals freedom and that the camps teach the Hebrew to work, and that the other powers conspire to divide the German people. She was an orphan adopted by an Austrian family; her prayer book was Mein Kampf, which she used to read every evening, while anxiously awaiting the proof of her Aryan origin, the key to a love relationship with an SS officer. She eventually receives the document, and is shocked to find out that she is “a second-degree Jewish half-breed”.

Can this character shake off the chains of fanaticism after the terrible identity shock? Can the horrors of war which she witnesses every day trigger the awakening of the consciousness? The answers to these questions will challenge the audience to an exercise of imagination and to ponder upon the psychological mechanisms that triggered some other oddities of our recent and contemporary history - communism and terrorism.

The show has english subtitles.

Not suitable for viewers under the age of 16