Noone is interested in the context of what you wrote. What matters is the content of your post in the context of this thread.
To clarify, if I wrote about the Oscars on a matchday thread, you'd wonder if I'd missed the point of thread. You seem to have done exactly that.
Of course he was referring to the Nazis.
I just fail to see what relevance a handful of people on social media denying this (according to you) has to this thread. It's just an irrelevance.
What Lineker didn't do is compare Tory government policy with that of the Nazis, only the language used in the early days of the Nazi party compared to the language used now.
He is right of course.