Anthony in ‘heil’ storm

‘Nazi-frisk’ outrage

Anthony Weiner has come under intense fire from Jewish leaders for invoking Nazi Germany while criticizing the NYPD’s stopandfrisk program.

“Last year, more than 700,000 in New York were stopped — the overwhelming majority of them were young men of color. Ninetyseven percent of them did nothing wrong,” Weiner told largely black congregants in Staten Island’s First Central Baptist Church Sunday.

“And the mayor stood up and said, ‘Wait a minute, statistically this’ and ‘statistically that.’ Well, you can have 100 percent statistical reduction in crime if you stop everybody.

“You could have 1938 Germany, because everyone has to show their papers.”

State Sen. Simcha Felder, who represents largely Orthodox communities in South Brooklyn, slammed Weiner’s remarks.

“His comments were shocking and disgraceful . . . [and] he should apologize,” Felder declared. “Anyone who uses the Holocaust frivolously diminishes the tragedy that oc curred. Weiner clearly stepped over the line.”

Weiner made the comments a day after the controversial acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.

The Weiner campaign yesterday sought to clarify the explosive comments.

“The context of the reference was the argument made by some that stopping innocent citizens was an acceptable cost for public safety,” said Weiner spokeswoman Barbara Morgan. “He clearly was not equating 1938 Nazi Germany to New York City.”

The latest Quinnipiac University Democratic mayoral poll shows Weiner on top with 25 percent, followed by Christine Quinn with 22 percent. But Weiner pulls 20 percent of the Jewish vote, more than any other candidate.

The controversial Nazi comment comes as the Democratic candidates jockey to appeal to voters critical of stopandfrisk.

As City Council speaker, Quinn championed a bill that creates an NYPD inspector general to monitor stopandfrisk.