Locsin to settle ‘Hitler’ tweet with German envoy to ManilaBy The Manila TimesFOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. will personally settle with the German ambassador to Manila the issue raised against him by the German Foreign Ministry concerning his support for the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. Locsin issued the statement after a Berlin-based journalist posted on social media that the “Philippine’s acting Ambassador has been summoned by Germany’s Foreign Ministry. It has been made very clear that the remarks by Teodoro Locsin were totally unacceptable.”The German Foreign Ministry summoned Lilibeth Pono, the acting Philippine Charges d’Affaires to Germany. German journalist Arnd Henze, on Twitter, said, “In our interview, Philippines’ Foreign Minister embraced remarks of President Duterte about (Adolf) Hitler and slaughtering 3 million drug addicts. Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination center in occupied Poland during World War 2.

Source: Manila Times February 22, 2019 14:15 UTC