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Millfield School regrets pupils’ Hitler salute | News

A leading private school has apologized after students performed Sfor example Heil salutes during a play about Adolf Hitler.

The incident at Millfield School in Somerset, which charges up to £14,610 a term for boarders, happened hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

the game Adolph, features actor and playwright Pip Atton performing in front of a large Nazi flag while dressed as a dictator. Wootton, who previously took the show to the Edinburgh Fringe, said he “manipulated” the children at the end of the show to demonstrate “how easy it is”.

The father of a Jewish student said he was horrified to see pictures of students in the audience laughing as they performed Nazi songs