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.

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.

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

Tesla owners are boycotting the popular electric vehicle over founder Elon Musk’s controversial salute at the inauguration of President Donald Trump, which was widely compared to the Roman salute used by the Nazis.

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.