NZ Deputy PM Unapologetic on ‘Nazi Germany’ Comparison

‘I’ve seen that sort of philosophy before. I saw it in Nazi Germany. We all did. We’ve seen it elsewhere around the world in the horrors of history.’

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has defended his comments on co-governance which he claims were taken taken out of context by Nz media. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has stood his ground against media and other politicians who criticised him over comments he made in his State of the Nation speech last week, in which he responded to a statement allegedly made by a Maori party leader that Maori DNA was superior.

In his address to a crowd in the North Island town of Palmerston North on March 17, Mr. Peters, who is Maori, said the previous Labour-led government had allowed racial division to flourish by implying that those with Maori DNA were “somehow better than others.”