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In this April 12, 2018 photo German rappers Kollegah & Farid Bang receive the "Hip-Hop/Urban national" award during the 2018 Echo Music Awards ceremony in Berlin. A German Jewish leader is criticizing a music awards show for giving a prize to two rappers whose reference to the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in a song she says harms efforts to fight anti-Semitism. German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang won an Echo award Thursday night for their new album on which a song contains the line “my body’s more defined than an Auschwitz inmate’s.” (Axel Schmidt/Pool Photo via AP)
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