Maas' outburst came a day after a woman in Hanover spoke at a protest against coronavirus restrictions, telling the crowd that she felt "just like Sophie Scholl," a student sent to the guillotine by the Nazi regime in 1943 for distributing anti-war leaflets in Munich.
At a demonstration in the city of Karlsruhe last weekend, an 11-year-old caused uproar when she compared her lockdown-defying birthday party to Anne Frank's life of hiding from Hitler's forces in occupied Amsterdam.
Germany has so far recorded almost 928,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and over 14,000 deaths, and went into a new partial lockdown on November 2. Restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas, and gyms have been forced to close for a month, with private gatherings limited to 10 people from no more than two households. Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for a tightening of these rules, but admitted last week that she does not have the necessary backing from state leaders to do so.
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