WARASW: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday criticised the slogans heard at a far-right rally in Germany this weekend, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The slogans “sounded all too familiar and ominous. Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,” former EU council chief Tusk wrote on X.

Tusk said he was referring to “the words we heard from the main actors of the AfD rally about ´Great Germany´ and ´the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes´”.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded on his election campaign account on X that “I couldn´t agree more, dear Donald”.

The rally by Germany´s anti-immigration AfD party on Saturday, which was addressed by US tech billionaire Elon Musk, comes ahead of elections next month.

Musk told the rally in a video address: “I think there´s too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that. Children should not be guilty for the sins of their great grandparents.”