You’re probably right, but it’s only been two months since an actual Holocaust survivor (i.e. someone who fully experienced the things that reference to could be harmful to second, third, fourth generations Jews) said the same thing, to the home sec, only much more explicitly.
Fundamentally, what Lineker said is objectively true. And drawing that parallel is done to emphasise the sheer disgrace the current rhetoric from the government is.
Impartiality matters on the BBC. Lineker is impartial on the BBC. What the government actually hate is that he is far more popular than any of the MPs who try to tweet their dumb slogans and that’s infuriating for them - case in point Lineker rationing Penny Maudant after her embarrassingly shit metaphor about left wing strikers or whatever.
https://news.sky.com/story/holocaus...are-similar-to-those-of-nazi-germany-12786451