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Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. These included Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach and the 1957 version of Viktor und Viktoria. Heesters stopped making movies around 1960 to concentrate on stage and television appearances and on producing records.In later years Heesters spoke fondly of Hitler as a person, but condemned his political stance. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011) was a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer with a career dating back to 1921.

In its ruling, the German court did not find that Kühn's allegations were true, but rather that too much time had passed for an accurate determination of fact to be made.Heesters' signature tune was Count Danilo Danilovitch's entrance song "Da geh' ich ins Maxim" from Heesters worked extensively for UFA until almost the end of the Second World War (his last wartime movie being Die Fledermaus, produced in 1945) and easily made the transition from the Nazi-controlled cultural scene to post-war Germany and Austria, appearing again in a number of films. He said that he had said something stupid and horrible and asked for forgiveness.

Heesters was fluent in German from a very early age having lived for several years in the household of a German great uncle from Bavaria.Aged 31, Heesters permanently moved to Germany with his wife and daughters in 1935.

Besides her acting career, Rethel was also a painter and a photographer.

On 5 December 2007 he celebrated his 104th birthday with a concert at the Admiralspalast, Berlin, and in February 2008 he performed in his home country for the first time in four decades amidst protests against his Nazi associations.Heesters apologised for statements made regarding Adolf Hitler on the popular German TV show Wetten, dass..? 3

His father Jacobus Heesters (1865–1946) was a salesman and his mother Geertruida Jacoba van den Heuvel (1866–1951), a homemaker.Heesters was fluent in German from a very early age having lived for several years in the household of a German great uncle from Bavaria. According to German writer Jürgen Trimborn however, the interview with Matejka may not be reliable as it occurred some fifty years after the performance was said to have taken place.

Mr. "Jopie" also performed regularly for people such as Hitler and Goering, with the former being known to have been an avid admirer of his acting skills.

For this claim he uses as evidence the testimony of Dachau inmate Viktor Matejka who worked for the SS and told Kühn he pulled the curtain when Heesters performed in 1941. Hy was beskou as die wêreld se oudste aktiewe vertoonkunstenaar.

He always denied having visited concentration camps, although he did have knowledge of their existence.According to German author Volker Kühn, Heesters did in fact perform for the SS in Dachau concentration camp.

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