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On Thursday, Elon Musk agreed with the leader of Germany’s right-wing political party that Adolf Hitler was a communist and that left-wing groups that support the Palestinian cause have more in common with the Nazis than with his own party.
The strange and uninformed conversation between Musk and Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), took place on X. It came weeks after Musk tried to promote the far-right party, which has been happening. deep links to neo-Nazism and have been targeted by German law enforcement agencies who are thought to be dangerous.
“(Hitler) was a communist, and he considered himself a socialist,” Weidel said in response to Musk’s question about reports linking the AfD to Nazism.
“The biggest success after this terrible time in our history was to say that Adolf Hitler is right and conservative, he was the exact opposite,” Weidel said. “He was not a conservative person, he was not liberal, he was a communist, a socialist, and we are different.”
“Okay,” Musk replied.
In the history of his life My battleHitler—who as the leader of the German Empire was responsible for the invasion of the Soviet Union and the enslavement and death of millions of its citizens—repeatedly described communism as the enemy of Germany. He believed that Marxism was a Jewish conspiracy to control Germany and the world.
Weidel also compared the views of the Nazis to those of modern left-wing political groups that support Palestine in the face of the UN’s claims. human crimes committed by Israel. While his AfD colleagues were seen last month attend a secret meeting organized by former members of the Nazi party Known for burning the Israeli flag, he said, “AfD is the defender of the Jewish people here in Germany.”
Weidel is the AfD’s candidate in next month’s German elections. As a man who used to work in finance and lives in Switzerland with his wife, who is from Sri Lanka, and their children, he was portrayed as the humble face of the party.
This is what Musk wrote in an op-ed he wrote last month in a German newspaper.
“The portrayal of the AfD as far-right is false, given that Alice Weidel, the leader of the party, has a spouse from Sri Lanka,” Musk wrote. “Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”
Before Thursday’s speech, the EU said it would be monitoring the activity to see if it was arbitrarily promoted to voters in Germany, which would be in violation of the Digital Services Act. A spokesperson for the European Commission told WIRED that it has no comment on the content of the stream.
Weidel also hinted at the EU’s involvement in the talks, saying that 150 EU Commission officials are listening, so the DSA is a monitoring tool, before adding: “You know what Adolf Hitler did? He shut down free speech. He controlled the media, and without that he wouldn’t have done well.”
