BMG says “nie wieder” with campaign against antisemitism
After the outcry over the Echos and amid rising antisemitism in Germany, the publisher hopes to snuff out hatred in schools with a €100,000 music biz-led initiative
News By | 15 June 2018
German music publishing and rights management outfit BMG has initiated a new campaign aimed at combatting antisemitism and hate speech in schools.
The campaign launched at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema on Wednesday, where Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser talked about his experience in the Nazi concentration camps, and director Emanuel Rotstein screened his film Die Befreier (The Liberators). At the end of the launch event, Lesser asked the audience to hold hands and repeat after him three times, “Nie…
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