Anton Lang

When reporters told Lang of “religious clashes” in the United States, which then was witnessing fights between evolutionists and religious fundamentalists and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and its anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic propaganda, and of “the organized manifestations of bigotry” he “seemed incredulous” and “shook his head deprecatingly.” Lang commented that “At Oberammergau we have all kinds.

“He was exceedingly anxious to impress upon me the necessity of denying the rumours, pointing out that it might be very dangerous for him if they were allowed to persist.” Two weeks later Lang was dead’.

Corathiel was “convinced that the political trend at the time hastened his end.”[7] Almost the whole Oberammergau population attended Lang's funeral.

After running the gauntlet of a bevy of abusing HJ [Hitler Youth] boys, we were allowed to proceed to Munich.

[citation needed] According to an urban myth given credence by a number of obituaries of director Billy Wilder notably in the Independent and The New York Times, Lang was a hardline fascist and led, in 1938, a violent attack on the sole Jew living in Oberammergau at the time.