107 year old singer says Hitler was a "good guy"

This is a misunderestimation. What Johannes actually meant is that Hitler said that about HIM, but it got all confused and mixed up due to some missing clearness in that statement.

How do i know that? Well the scene aired in a German culture zine and his manager (or whoever she was) also commented on that trying to clarify that. It's ridiculous to cut and twist the words in his mouth but that's what mass media often do.

well the remarks should be taken in totality

You story is not accurate. 

one, he is not popular in Germany.

two, he was invited to a show in the Netherlands last summer for his birthday.

three, he said that he had never been treated badly by Hitler and that Hitler always was a Gentleman toward him.

Big difference is in the detail. 

You need to follow the reliable news rather then gossip.

Is he 105 or 107?

Born Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters in Amersfoort, Netherlands, Heesters very early in his career specialized in Viennese operetta, making his Viennese stage debut in 1934 in Karl Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student).

Career

Over the decades, "Da geh' ich ins Maxim", Count Danilo Danilovitch's entrance song from Franz Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) —Danilo has spent most of the night drinking at Maxim's and flirting with women— has become Heesters's signature tune. More operettas followed, many of which were also made into musical films.

He moved to Germany in 1935. He performed for Adolf Hitler and visited the Dachau concentration camp. As a result "many Dutch people have never forgiven him."[2]

Heesters worked extensively for UFA until almost the end of the Second World War (his last wartime movie being Die Fledermaus, produced in 1945) and easily made the transition from the Nazi-controlled cultural scene to post-war Germany and Austria, appearing again in a number of films as early as the late 1940s. He stopped making movies around 1960, however, to concentrate on stage and television appearances and on producing records.

Heesters has two daughters by his first wife Wiesje Ghijs, whom he married in 1930. After her death in 1985, he remarried in 1991; his second wife, Simone Rethel (born 1949), is a German actress, painter and photographer. His younger daughter Nicole Heesters is a well-known actress in German-speaking countries too.

In the 1990s, he and his wife toured Germany and Austria with Curth Flatow's play Ein gesegnetes Alter (A Blessed Age), which was also televised in 1996.

On December 5, 2003, he celebrated his 100th birthday with a television special "Eine Legende wird 100" ("A legend turns 100") on theARD television channel.

In September and October 2003, Heesters appeared in Stuttgart at the Komödie im Marquardt theatre in a show commissioned on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Heesters — eine musikalische Hommage. In 2005 he was featured as a soloist in a major concert tour with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg under the direction of Scott Lawton.

On December 5, 2006 he celebrated his 103rd birthday with a concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus. On December 5, 2007 he celebrated his 104th birthday with a concert at the Admiralspalast, Berlin, and in February 2008 he performed in his home country for the first time in four decades amidst protests against his Nazi associations. He is now almost completely blind due to glaucoma and macular degeneration.

This reminds me of Mephisto.

Warning: do not see this movie if the idea of Klaus Maria Brandauer in tights frightens you, but it's a good movie.

Thanks Paschen!

So he is 105 then...