FILE PHOTO: Chairman of SC Freiburg and President-elect of the German Football Association, DFB, Fritz Keller and member of UEFA's Appeals Body Rainer Koch pose during a news conference at the General Assembly of DFL in Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
BERLIN (Reuters) -The president of Germany's Football Association (DFB) Fritz Keller on Tuesday apologised publicly for making a Nazi reference when talking to his vice president in a meeting last week, saying it had been a "grave mistake."
Keller referred to vice president Rainer Koch, a civil judge, as "Freisler", a reference to prominent Nazi judge Roland Freisler, a participant at the 1942 Wannsee Conference where the Nazis laid out their "final solution" plan to exterminate the Jews.
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