German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel today compared members of the right-wing and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) to members of the Nazi movement.
"Everything these people are saying I have already heard from my father, who was a Nazi until the last hour," said Gabriel in an interview with the Funke media group.
According to him, "some members of the AfD are against the openness to the world and the liberal values of modern Germany and strive for a society like it was in the darkest age of our country".
They, as he says, want to return to the period when women sat at home, foreigners and members of the LGBT population were invisible and when old military songs were sung in the evening with beer, reports German media.
The AfD opposes Germany's policy towards migrants and believes that Islam does not belong in Germany and that minarets and burqas should be banned.
Recently, the party's vice president, Alexander Goland, came under fire when he allegedly insulted German soccer player Jerome Boateng, whose father is from Ghana, saying that no one would want to be his neighbor.
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