Billionaire Elon Musk intervened this Saturday via telematics at a rally of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)and raised controversy over the content and tone of his speech.
In a video conference appearance, the tycoon declared that “the children of Germany should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, much less of their grandparents” before criticizing “a multiculturalism that dilutes everything.”
Musk urged AfD affiliates to “be proud to be German” and added that the permanent confrontation with the guilt of the past seemed exaggerated. “Honestly, there is too much blame on the past, that is something that needs to be left behind,” the millionaire said.
Musk’s words have sparked several criticisms. The Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, and the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, have repudiated the philo-Nazi overtones of the tycoon’s tone.
“The words we heard from the main participants of the AfD rally about a ‘Greater Germany’ and about ‘the need to forget Germany’s guilt for Nazi crimes sound too familiar and too ominous,” Tusk said on his X (formerly Twitter) account.
“I couldn’t agree with you more.dear Donald,” Scholz wrote on the same social network, which curiously belongs to Musk.
For his part, the director of the Yad Vashhem memorial in Israel, Dani Dayan, also rejected Musk’s words in X: “The memory and recognition of the dark past they have to continue to be at the center of German society.
“Not doing so is offending the victims of national socialism and a threat to Germany’s democratic future,” he added.
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