In Germany, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters dresses as a Nazi and compares the death of Anne Frank to that of an Al Jazeera journalist

During a at a recent concert in Berlin (Germany), Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters decided to wear a Nazi uniform (including a red armband) on stage from the Mercedes-Benz Arena, causing criticism on social networks and the media.

and in the show above it hung red banners in the style of the Third Reich, but with the swastika replaced by symbols of crossed hammers, symbology reminiscent of the fictional neo-Nazi organization featured in his 1982 film. Pink Floyd: The Wall.

Although perhaps the most controversial was the inclusion of names Anna FrankJewish teenage victims killed during the Holocaust, and from Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera journalist who was killed last year while covering an Israeli Defense Force raid in a Palestinian refugee camp.

Moreover, After the controversy, the 79-year-old rocker denied that he advocated an anti-Semitic stance.

The artist started the performance with an announcement (or warning) on ​​the screen that reads: ‘In the public interest: the court in Frankfurt ruled that I am not anti-Semitic. To be clear, I unreservedly condemn anti-Semitism.”