From Red Stream Net:  “EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Palestine activists targeted Germany’s largest publishing house, Axel Springer, for its whitewashing of Israel’s extermination war against Gaza and incitement against Palestinians. The activists left a huge message at the Axel Springer Skyscraper site that reads, “Springer participated in the shooting.”

The slogan emerged during the radical student movement of the 1960s in West Germany, which besieged the Springerhaus in 1968 after an armed attack on the prominent student leader Rudi Dutschke. Many blamed the Springer house for propagating anti-communist sentiments, fueling the assassination attempt, giving rise to the slogan “Springer participated in the shooting.”

The media empire owned by Axel Springer includes prominent outlets such as Bild, Die Welt, Business Insider, Politico, and others. Springer enshrined its commitment to Israel in its “constitution.” Journalists and all other employees must pledge their ideological commitment to Israel, NATO, and the “free market economy” before signing a contract.

The history of Axel Springer is deeply intertwined with the Nazi Reich. At the age of 21, Springer joined a paramilitary Nazi organization before moving to the newspaper “Altonaer Nachrichten” in 1933, where he produced Nazi propaganda as deputy editor-in-chief and developed his anti-communist and racist rhetoric, which paved the way for his life-long career until his death in 1985.”