Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters sparks outrage after dressing as a Nazi SS officer in Berlin and comparing a dead Al Jazeera journalist to Holocaust victim Anne Frank
- Roger Waters, 79, donned a costume featuring the crossed hammer imagery that the fictitious neo-Nazi organization wore in the 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall
- He also displayed the names of dead figures including Anne Frank next to Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot last year
- Still, the rocker has denied that he is anti-Semitic
Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has once again sparked outrage after he dressed up as a Nazi SS officer during a performance in Berlin and compared a deceased Al Jazeera journalist to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Waters, 79, donned a costume featuring the crossed hammer imagery that the fictitious neo-Nazi organization wore in the 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall when he performed at the Mercedes-Benz Arena last week.
Hanging above him were Third Reich-style banners, but with the swastikas switched out for the crossed hammers.
And a screen behind him displayed the names of dead figures, including Anne Frank next to Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot last year while covering an Israeli Defense Forces raid on a Palestinian refugee camp.
The country’s Orthodox Jewish rabbinical association is now calling for a ban on Waters performing in Germany — but the rocker continues to deny he is anti-Semitic.
Roger Waters, 79, dressed up as a Nazi SS officer when he performed in Berlin last week
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