f.t. was speaking at a meeting of the party's youth wing his comments have caused outrage with other politicians and parliament condemning his words. the seventy seven year old code leader of the f.t. alexander garland has been accused of dismissing the crimes of nazi germany as a blip in history in comments at the f.t. youth wing's congress he said that historians have placed too much emphasis on the twelve years of hitler's rule. yes we recognize our responsibility for the twelve years but dear friends hitler and the nazis are just a bird dropping in over a thousand years of successful german history. of reactions from within german politics have been scathing last cling bile general secretary of the social democratic party took to twitter to say alexander garland statements have revealed what lies behind the f.t. s. facade this is a terrifying minimization of the nazi era it's shameful that people like him are in the german bundestag. the conservative side of german politics also reacted critically and it did come out on our of i'm going to miracles christian democrats tweeted fifty million w

has been accused of dismissing the crimes of nazi germany as a blip in history in comments at the f.t. youth wing's congress he said that historians have placed too much emphasis on the twelve years of hitler's rule. yes we recognize our responsibility for the twelve years but dear friends hitler and the nazis are just a bird dropping in over a thousand years of successful german history. going on has repeatedly argued that germany should be proud of its world war two veterans he's also been criticized for failing to rein in the extreme fringes of the party. the a.f.d. tapped into n.t. immigrant and anti establishment sentiment to win twelve point six percent of the vote in last year's parliamentary elections that makes them the third largest party in the bundestag and the largest opposition party. now those comments from the f.t. of co-leader alexander garland have sparked a massive controversy here in germany and political correspondent but build about is with me here in studio so what have some of the reactions to gollum's comments been sofa and we have reactions from more or less all the

understood correctly as he did when just a couple weeks ago he was in the event of the youth organization of the f.t. and said that brief german history the nazi era was nothing but a buzz dropping in the whole of german history something he felt he was was misinterpreted misinterpreted but we see once again that there is kind of a verbal escalation and this was all embedded this comparison which quite clearly is too often because there is no other historical reference possible in that context. that is something that is there were days that is seen as we saw the reaction you heard the reaction in the room had its least welcomed within the crowd of some six hundred delegates here. can occur for. a fire they were. was an odd day for football fans the first in two weeks with no world cup fixtures to watch today though the tournament continues with the round of sixteen half of the teams have already gone home and this weekend the knockout stage will claim its first victims ties and like argentina and portugal are in action as well a surprise success stories like let's take a look at the name of the land