COLOGNE, Germany -- Neo-Nazis in the eastern German state of Sachsen-Anhalt have successfully blocked a benefit concert by left-wing singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker. Wecker, a political activist singer and film composer (Schtonk!), had planned to give a concert Wednesday night at a high school in the eastern town of Halberstadt. It was part of Wecker's "Nazis Get Out of Town!" tour, a nonprofit series of concerts the musician has organized across eastern Germany in response to the recent upswing in neo-Nazi violence in the region. But radical right-wing party the NPD threatened to disrupt the Halberstadt concert if it went ahead. The NPD accused Wecker of using the school concert as a front for political campaigning on behalf of Germany's socialist Left Party.
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