German international Leon Goretzka lashed out at the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, saying that group has once again shown its true face during the coronavirus pandemic, siding with those who take weight off the virus.
"They are not an alternative for Germany but a disgrace for Germany," Goretzka said in an interview published in Sunday's 'Welt am Sonntag'.
It is not the first time that the Bayern player has taken a position against AfD and has received insults for it in the past.
"We have to make it clear to the people that we live in a democracy that should not be harmed by anyone or anything. The insults motivate me to take a position even more clearly," he said.
Goretzka had an encounter with Holocaust survivor
Margot Friedländer
this year
and recalled it in the interview.
"Despite all the pain she went through, she is still a positive person. That is incredible for someone who has lived what she went through," he said.
"He made it clear to me that we, the youngest, are the ones who have to work so that something like this is never repeated," he added.
The most radical leaders of the AfD have tried on several occasions to downplay the Holocaust.
Thus, for example, the co-chairman of the parliamentary group,
Alexander Gauland
, said that it was only "a bird shit in 1,000 years of German history."
The party leader in Thuringia,
Björn Höcke
, called the monument to the victims of the Holocaust a monument of shame.
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