The German Government has launched an investigation again into Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters for wearing a costume that looked like a Nazi uniform.
He donned the outfit, apparently, at two different Berlin concerts recently.
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There is a bit in Pink Floyd’s famed album “The Wall” where the singer hallucinates and imagines that he’s a fascist dictator.
It’s been in his show for over 30 years. It was also included in a famous 1990 Berlin performance.
The spokesman for the Berlin police told CNN, “We have received information from the public including pictures and videos which according to the external appearance are suitable for fulfilling the offense of incitement to hatred.”
He may be booked on the charge of “incitement of people.” Although no one responded with any hatred or violence when he appeared in his questionable outfits.
Waters might have drawn the attention of German law enforcement for a different reason. He criticized the parliament’s accusation that the efforts to divest from Israel were antisemitic.
One of the performances in question has Waters in an outfit that has a red arm band with two crossed hammers. You could say it looks similar to the swastika, but it’s not the same thing. He then mimed shooting into the audience with a toy machine gun.
The German government has tried to shut Waters down before. Last month, city officials in Berlin aimed to nix a Waters concert there. But a judge overruled them.
We’ll see if this investigation gets any legs, or if there – even in Germany – is nothing really tangible to nail him on.
Waters summed up his defense quite nicely saying, “It’s a parody.”
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