GERMAN rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang have escaped prosecution over lyrics about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

The duo had compared their muscular bodies with those of Auschwitz prisoners and suggested a new Holocaust in a rap that caused uproar in Germany where 6 million Jews and millions of others were exterminated by the nazi regime.

One of the tracks on their latest album includes the offensive lines: “My body is more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates” and another: “I’m doing another Holocaust, coming with the Molotov.”

However prosecutors said that, while the lyrics were offensive, they did not amount to Holocaust denial nor incite violence.

Dusseldorf prosecutors office spokesman Ralf Herrenbruck said that although “gangsta rap” might be deemed as “vulgar, misogynistic and homophobic” it could not bring charges against the pair as artistic freedom is guaranteed under the German constitution.

The duo received condemnation after winning the Echo prize in the German music industry awards in the hip-hop/urban category, leading to the ceremony being axed as a “damaged brand.”

At least 1.1 million were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Most of those murdered were European Jews.