..by dressing up their ghosts in American costumes. Projection anyone?

At a German opera house, Austrian director Johann Kresnik is staging Verdi's "A Masked Ball" using naked masses of "people without means", Nazi mustaches and Sieg Heil salutes.

These are all horrific, yet familiar images that the world associates with German and Austrian atrocities in WWII. But for some reason, these descendants of the Anschluss have chosen to put Mickey Mouse masks on their memories.

Guilt can cause some strange behaviour - and some vile and tasteless, soon to be forgotten "entertainment."