Different groups are presently organizing visits to Oberammergau and the Passion Play as part of their European tours, which are highly praised as unique spiritual experiences. The Passion Play is presented as a religious event, without any history of its past and present problems. The Oberammergau Passion Play still projects a very negative view of Jewish leadership in the complex society of the First Century, implying a sense of community guilt for Jesus’ death, and minimizing Pilate’s and Roman responsibility.

It is suggested that tourist agencies or different organizing groups alert participants to the problems related to the presentation of Jews and Judaism in the play, and its theological anti-Jewish projections, which prepared the atmosphere for the Holocaust, a painful reality in the nearby Dachau concentration camp.

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