Chad Hurley (L) and Steve Chen, co-founders of YouTube, which was acquired by Web search leader Google Inc. for $1.65 billion last year, pose after a news conference in Paris June 19, 2007. Hurley and Chen announced that the nine country sites will eventually feature locally popular content.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Video-sharing website YouTube has met with harsh criticism in Germany for hosting clips that incite racial hatred, media reported Tuesday.

The videos hosted on YouTube include clips of a 1940 anti-Semitic propaganda film "Jud Suess" and two music videos of outlawed German far-right rock band Landser, which show footage from World War II depicting Nazi military operations.

Dieter Wiefelspuetz, Social Democrat (SPD) parliamentarian of Germany said airing the clips on YouTube in Germany was scandalous. "Publishing these films amounts to aiding and abetting incitement of the people."

Germany's Central Council of Jews Vice President Salomon Korn was considering pressing charges against Google Germany.

German youth protection body Jugendschutz.net has complained to Google Germany more than 100 times and asked Google, which bought YouTube last year, to remove the clips.

Some of the material has been on the site for almost a year.