BRITISH rocker Pete Doherty was hauled off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began singing the Nazi anthem Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles during his set, reports say.
Revellers at the on3 festival in Munich booed and shouted at Doherty, but he carried on singing until organisers removed him from the stage, Bavaria's TZ newspaper reported.
Doherty's tirade was broadcast live on Bavarian public radio, the festival's organisers said.
"We decided to stop Peter Doherty's appearance on stage as quickly as possible,'' organisers Bayerischer Rundfunk said in a statement.
It is the latest in a long line of controversies for the 30-year-old Babyshambles singer, whose career has been marred by drug use and jail time.
The lines come from the first verse of the Song of Germany and this verse was used as the national anthem under the Nazis.
While the verse is not banned in Germany, it has not been sung since World War II because of its close links with Adolf Hitler.
It's not the first time Doherty has been criticized in Germany, he also came under fire while still the front man for The Libertines.
The band's song Arbeit macht frei tried to address racism in Great Britain but was deemed tasteless in Germany for being titled after the slogan written in the gates of Nazi concentration camps.
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