German Defense Chief Compares Putin to Hitler at Churchill Event

Pistorius references Nazi annexation of Czechoslovak territory
SPD minister speaks at Churchill book presentation in Berlin

Boris Pistorius
Photographer: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images

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By Arne Delfs

April 11, 2024 at 1:40 PM UTC

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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius compared Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine to Adolf Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovak territory in 1938 and said Europe should prepare for a large-scale Russian attack.

“Putin will not stop once the war against Ukraine is over,” Pistorius said late Wednesday at the presentation of a new book about Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill.