Outrage as German Olympian Skates to 'Schindler's List' Music

A German figure skater is on thin ice after she performed to the haunting score of the Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" at the Winter Olympics.

Social media exploded in anger early Friday following the routine by Nicole Schott in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Nicole Schott, German figure skater, chooses to do her free skate to the Schindlers List theme song. You just cannot draw it up any worse. Face planting on your first move and laying there for the reminder of your time would've been better. Good lord

— David Rosenthal (@_therealdrose) February 23, 2018

NO ONE SHOULD BE SKATING TO SCHINDLER'S LIST!!!!!!!

— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) February 23, 2018

German figure skater, Nicole Schott, decided to skate to the score of Schindler's List...

In case you've never seen it, Schindler's List is a gut-wrenching movie about the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany.

...did I mention that she's German?!?

I think I'm about to throw up. pic.twitter.com/WkeFUItDNj

— Brenna Simon (@BrennaSimonSays) February 23, 2018

Her choice was incredibly tone-deaf, and it just underscores the importance of history. This is what happens when people forget.

— Dan Nazaruk (@dannazaruk) February 23, 2018

The soundtrack to the 1993 Steven Spielberg movie — composed by John Williams and performed by violinist Itzhak Perlman — won an Oscar for Best Original Score.

Others have used the poignant music to skate to.

Russian figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, 15, helped her team win a gold medal at 2014's Sochi Winter Olympics with the same music, The Times of Israel reports.

German figure skater and two-time Olympic gold medalist Katarina Witt, who has also performed to it defended Schott on Twitter.

Please guys,don't be so harsh on Nicole Schott´s Music choice&keep olympic spirit.She did a very elegant choreography to this extraordinary emotional violin piece.I skated to the music of "Schindler´s List" too&Steven Spielberg himself send me the most touching letter afterwards

— Katarina Witt (@Katarina_Witt) February 23, 2018

Others also defended Schott:

As s Jew who has studied the Holocaust for decades and visited death camps, I applaud Nicole Schott for her Schindler's List performance. With the rapid rise of antiSemitism in Europe, it was brave and wholly appropriate.

— Ken Ferber (@theferbergroup) February 23, 2018

Nicole Schott is being criticised for doing a skating routine to the score of Schindler's List. The movie is about a hero to the Jewish people and the score is incredibly beautiful. I don't think any slight was intended. 1/2

— Dan Kohn (@dan_kohn) February 23, 2018

By German Winter Olympic figure skater Nicole Schott skating to the music from the Schindler's list, she was protesting WWII Nazi hate.

— Joe Riff Raff (@joe_riff_raff) February 23, 2018

Schott's routine earned her an 18th place finish.

"Schindler's List" revolves around real-life businessman Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of more than a thousand Jews bound for death camps by employing them in his factories during World War II.

The R-rated drama, which stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley, reaped seven Oscars.

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