Enlarge image Demonstrator in Hamburg, with a poster against the Ukraine invasion: Putin - the new Hitler? Photo: picture alliance SPIEGEL: In current debates on the Ukraine conflict, there are repeated metaphors and allusions to the Second World War. Vladimir Putin, for example, justifies the war in Ukraine with the aim of “denazification”. What do such comparisons mean for victims' associations and contemporary witnesses of the Second World War? Majchrzak: The attempt to legitimize Russia's illegal attack on Ukraine with "denazification" or the prevention of genocide is not just a distortion of reality. This is an unacceptable and cynical falsification...