Condemns Russian Foreign Minister's Comments About Adolf Hitler And President Zelensky, Germany Calls Propaganda Unreasonable

Presiden Ukraina Volodymyr Zelensky. (Wikimedia Commons/President Of Ukraine)

JAKARTA - Comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Italian television stating that Adolf Hitler has Jewish origins is "absurd" propaganda, a spokesman for the German government said.

During an interview with the Rete 4 channel on Sunday, Foreign Minister Lavrov was asked how Russia can say it needs to 'denazify' Ukraine, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew.

"I think Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn't mean anything," Lavrov said through an interpreter, in comments that drew strong protests from Israel.

Separately, the German government's anti-Semitism commissioner also criticized the statement by the Russian foreign minister.

In comments to the Funke newspaper group, Felix Klein said Lavrov's remarks "made fun of the victims of National Socialism (Nazis), in an unacceptable way and shamelessly confronted not only Jews, but the entire international public with anti-Semitism. open.

"Lavrov cynically twists past and present victims and perpetrators," he said.

As previously reported, Israel condemned the statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, calling it an unforgivable lie and demeaning the Nazi Holocaust.

No need to wait long, the Israeli Foreign Ministry immediately summoned the Russian ambassador to the country, and demanded an apology.

"Such lies are meant to accuse the Jews themselves of the most horrific crimes in history committed against them," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement.

"The use of the Jewish Holocaust for political purposes must stop immediately," said Prime Minister Bennett.