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POPSSinger, 104, Takes Stage Amid Protests Heesters says he didn't perform for the soldiers and didn't know about conditions at the concentration camp. After the war "I was ashamed of myself and I still haven't stopped feeling this way," Heesters wrote in his autobiography. "I am angry with myself for being gullible, credulous and naive." "It's all too easy for people today, most of whom grew up after the war, to pass judgement on the collaborators then," the paper wrote. "What would we do under comparable circumstances?"