Again leads an alleged Hitler compared to anger: Talking to a 78-year-old Lady Prince of Wales Charles is said to have called Russian President Vladimir Putin in a sentence with the Nazi dictator.

The British heir to the throne is have tried a Hitler-Putin comparison. At least that his interlocutor in Canada, which is quoted by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. It has triggered a new debate on the political position of the crown.

During his visits Canada Charles had the 78-year-old Marianne Ferguson made ​​in Migration Museum the city of Halifax. The Jewish woman who had fled from the Nazis from Gdansk to Canada, many of her relatives did not survive the Holocaust. With regard to the Ukraine crisis, the British heir to the throne to have said to her: “And now Putin is doing pretty much the same as Hitler.”

According to the report heard several attendees the utterance of the prince. His statement was “sincere” worked, Ferguson said, they also share the opinion. Still, she was surprised because she knew that it “is not allowed to say something like” the Royals.

The London office of the Prince of Wales, Clarence House, initially declined to comment and referred to a private conversation. The British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, Charles jumped to the side: It’m the prince free to speak his mind, Clegg said.

Prince Charles Putin-Hitler Comparison:Meeting at the D-Day commemoration

Criticism comes from the British press: Charles was caught in a diplomatic faux pas, was the chief political correspondent for the BBC, Norman Smith. Given the tense situation in Ukraine is such a comment for international diplomacy is not helpful. Prince Charles will take the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on June 6 for the D-Day commemoration in Normandy.

Already in early March is have compared a newspaper report that Putin’s actions on the Crimean peninsula with Hitler “connection” policy in the 1930s, Hillary Clinton.

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