Strack-Zimmermann criticizes the head of the Chancellery for the Nazi comparison

The FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann has criticized the Nazi comparison made by Chancellor Wolfgang Schmidt in the struggle for a delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine. “I offer Wolfgang Schmidt a collegial introduction to a little weapons knowledge. Then he would also quickly realize that not only is the comparison with Nazi weapons completely out of place, but also simply wrong," said the chair of the Defense Committee of the German Press Agency.

At a discussion event held in English in Berlin on Thursday, Schmidt defended the government's position that it would not supply the Ukraine with battle tanks to defend itself against Russia. Among other things, the SPD politician compared the calls for German Leopard 2 tanks with hopes that were placed in Nazi Germany in the V2 rocket, which propaganda described as the “miracle weapon”.

"Sometimes I'm tempted to call it the V2 syndrome of the Germans," said Schmidt - that there is a miracle weapon that, like magic, ensures that things get done. “And now the Leopard 2 (...) is that miracle weapon that will end the war. And he won't."

According to Nazi terminology, V2 stands for Vergeltungswaffe 2 and was widely used by Nazi Germany against civilian targets.

FDP politician Alexander Graf Lambsdorff expects three things from the meeting of NATO defense ministers. Among other things, condemning Russia's attacks as war crimes. He also hopes for more support for Ukraine in terms of tanks and heavy weapons.

Source: WORLD