Elon Musk speaks to the German far right that the nation should transcend the “past guilt” on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day
London – Elon Musk performed a surprising performance on the campaign for the extreme right of the German (AFD) party in the German campaign on Saturday, during which a crowd of about 4,500 AFD supporters said that “children should not be guilty of their parents’ sins, let alone Their great -grandfathers, “in an obvious reference in Nazi Germany just two days before the day of memory of the Holocaust. AFD, who had a musk previously expressed his support forThe German National Security Service is indicated by a suspicious extremist organization.
“Too much focus on past guilt and we have to go beyond that,” Musk said, adding that he considered the anti-immigration, anti-cultural integration party, “the best hope for Germany.”
“It is good to be proud of German culture, German values, not to lose it in some kind of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” said Musk, who became a and Close the ally and Adviser to President Trump.
The remarks come for days after a “clumsy gesture”
He gave objections just days after the police in Germany said they were investigating the projection of large images of Musk, which creates a gesture reminiscent of a Nazi greeting at Tesla Factory outside Berlin. Musk made the gesture twice at an inaugural event for President Trump early last week.
A group of campaigns in the UK and the German satirical group took responsibility for projections.
Every account of Nazi symbols is against the Federal Law in Germany. Musk did not directly deny the giving of the Nazi greeting, but he made a mocking gesture in the post on X, saying, “I honestly need better dirty tricks.” All Hitler “The attack is so tired.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended men, calling him a friend of the Jewish people and rejecting criticism by saying that the technological magnate was “falsely smeared”.
In the United States, a defamation league, which accompanies anti-Semitism, called the men’s action “clumsy gesture”, but said it was not a “Nazi greeting.”
2021., The musk threatened to sue ADL for defamation after the organization cited its X platform has enabled the spread of anti -Semitism.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, speaking the day before his nation welcomed the survivors and foreign dignitaries for memorial -service in memory 80 years of release From the infamous Nazi Auschwitz camp, he condemned Musk -the weekend of comments at the AFD gathering.
“The words we heard from the main actors of the AFD together about” Great Germany “and” The need to forget the German guilt for the Nazi crimes “sounded too familiar and malicious,” Tusk said on social media on Sunday. “Especially just a few hours before the anniversary of Auschwitz’s release.”
On Monday, while people gathered for a festive memorial in Auschwitz, Tusk said in a new post that “the whole world should have heard those words once more: never again! We must not forget the tragic lesson of our past. Evil, violence and contempt cannot overcome over and over.
The German government says Musk helps as the extreme right AfD get support
Germany is expected to hold elections in February after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his confidence vote, and his ruling coalition collapsed. AFD, which recently became the first extreme right party Winning the State Election From the Nazi era, he recorded an increase in support.
After Main’s remarks on Saturday, the AFD leader, Alice Weidel, thanked him and said to the crowd: “We again make Germany great again.”
At the end of last year, the German government accused the masculine of trying to influence the February elections when he published OP-ed in local newspapers in which he supported the AFD.
“It is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election,” a spokesman for the Government at the Social Media said at the time, although a spokesman said that Musk was free to express his views, adding: “After all, freedom of opinion also covers the greatest nonsense.”
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