The ballot by the ARD public broadcaster mentioned 21% of respondents agreed with the proposition.
“It’s racist. I really feel we have to get up. Many individuals in Europe needed to flee.. trying to find a secure nation,” Nagelsmann mentioned on Sunday.
The 36-year-old mentioned he agreed with Germany midfielder Joshua Kimmich, who described the questionnaire as “racist” a day earlier.
“Josh [Kimmich] responded rather well, with a really clear and thought-out assertion,” Nagelsmann mentioned at a briefing at his group’s coaching base.
“I see this in precisely the identical method. This query is insane.”
“There are individuals in Europe who’ve needed to flee due to battle, financial elements, environmental disasters, individuals who merely need to be taken in,” he went on.
“We have now to ask what are we doing in the mean time? We in Germany are doing very, very nicely, and once we say one thing like that, I feel it’s loopy how we flip a blind eye and easily block out such issues.”
ARD – the German public broadcaster – mentioned it had commissioned the survey to have measurable information, after a reporter engaged on a documentary on soccer and variety was repeatedly requested concerning the make-up of the nationwide group.
The ballot was carried out amongst 1,304 randomly chosen respondents.
Karl Valks, sports activities director with the ARD station who commissioned the ballot, mentioned the corporate was “dismayed that the outcomes are what they’re, however they’re additionally an expression of the social state of affairs in Germany immediately”.
“Sport performs an essential position in our society, the nationwide group is a powerful instance of integration,” German media cited him as saying.
The present nationwide squad has numerous gamers of color, together with captain Ilkay Gündogan and winger Leroy Sane.
Germany is internet hosting the Euro 2024 event later this month, and Nagelsmann mentioned his group can be enjoying “for everybody within the nation”. They’ll kick-off the competitors with a conflict in opposition to Scotland at Munich’s Allianz Area on 14 June.
The controversy comes simply weeks after the group’s equipment producer, Adidas, was pressured to ban followers from shopping for German soccer kits customised with the quantity 44, after media raised their resemblance to the image utilized by World Battle Two-era Nazi SS models.
The SS was answerable for lots of the crimes in opposition to humanity dedicated by the Nazis. Members of the SS ranged from Gestapo brokers to focus camp guards. SS duties included administering dying camps the place tens of millions of Jews and others had been put to dying.
