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German Olympic figure skater performed to ‘Schindler’s List’ score

Twitter can’t agree on whether or not the music choice was inappropriate.

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German figure skater Nicole Schott picked an interesting song to perform to at the 2018 Winter Olympics—music from the film Schindler’s List.

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The 1993 film, which was directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, who saved more than 1,000 mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II.

A German Olympian deciding to perform to the score from a movie about the Holocaust—especially since anti-Semitism still exists in Germany and has been worsening—raised a few eyebrows. Folks on Twitter expressed their disbelief and disapproval.

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Others, however, felt the masses were overreacting. They pointed out that Schindler’s List is about saving Jewish lives so it could be seen as a positive statement from Germany.

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Oddly enough, Schott isn’t the first Olympic figure skater to perform to the score. In 1993—right after the movie debuted— German figure skater and two-time Olympic gold medalist Katarina Witt performed to the score in a non-Olympic competition. Russian figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya later performed to the music in 2014 at the Sochi Games.  

 
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