New neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering experiments on Ba 2 CuGe 2 O 7 suggest that the previously suggested model for the magnetism of this material (an ideal sinusoidal spin spiral, stabilized by isotropic exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions) needs to be refined. Both new and previously published experimental results can be quantitatively explained by taking into account the Kaplan-Shekhtman-Entin-Wohlman-Aharony term, a special anisotropy term that was predicted to always accompany Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in insulators.