A Polish government minister called for a boycott of Tesla Inc. vehicles after billionaire Elon Musk said there was “too much focus on past guilt” in an apparent reference to Germany’s wartime atrocities under the Nazis.

Some 1.1 million people were murdered at the camp - located in Poland - between 1940 and 1945, the majority of who were Jewish. Polish Sport and Tourism Minister Sławomir Nitras condemned Musk's comments and has since called for a Tesla boycott.

Motorists have been told to boycott Tesla by the Polish sports minister in response to CEO Elon Musk's comments at a far-right German political rally that Germans should move beyond their "past guilt" over Nazi atrocities.

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There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.

Mr Tusk denounced the words as "all too familiar and ominous", and his tourism minister, Sławomir Nitras, has gone even further and called for Polish citizens - around 6 million of whom died in the Holocaust - to launch a boycott of Tesla vehicles in response.

The Tesla billionaire has left Germany furious after suggesting they need to get over their past guilt about the Nazis.

Elon Musk was criticized during the presidential inauguration over a hand gesture that resembled a Nazi salute. At a far-right political rally in Germany, Musk recently made dubious comments that bordered on Holocaust denial.