Monstrous comparison" - AfD party leader Alice Weidel referred to a statement by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who put German citizens from the former GDR and Syrians who received German citizenship on the same level. "Merkel says that citizens 'from the GDR' joined Germany later - just like the Syrians who joined 'only three years ago.' A monstrous comparison, which indicates the forgetting of history, from the former chancellor, whose CDU party is still causing enormous damage to our country with its immigration policy and completely ignores the will of the voters in the east of the country." Merkel's statement: "The Constitutional Court explained a long time ago: Yes, all power comes from the people, but the people are all German citizens. And it doesn't matter whether you became part of this nation after the annexation of the GDR or, being Syrian, you received German citizenship only three years ago. All German citizens are a people." Video not loading? Look at Mach!

Monstrous comparison" - AfD party leader Alice Weidel referred to a statement by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who put German citizens from the former GDR and Syrians who received German citizenship on the same level. "Merkel says that citizens 'from the GDR' joined Germany later - just like the Syrians who joined 'only three years ago.' A monstrous comparison, which indicates the forgetting of history, from the former chancellor, whose CDU party is still causing enormous damage to our country with its immigration policy and completely ignores the will of the voters in the east of the country." Merkel's statement: "The Constitutional Court explained a long time ago: Yes, all power comes from the people, but the people are all German citizens. And it doesn't matter whether you became part of this nation after the annexation of the GDR or, being Syrian, you received German citizenship only three years ago. All German citizens are a people." Video not loading? Look at Mach!