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On Thursday, Elon Musk agreed with the leader of a far-right German 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 their own.
A deeply strange and confusing conversation between Musk and Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel took place at X. It came after weeks of efforts by Musk to bolster the far-right party, which Deep links To neo-Nazism and monitored for suspected extremism by Germany’s own intelligence agencies
“[Hitler] was a communist, and he considered himself a socialist,” Weidel said in response to Musk’s question about media reports linking the AfD to Nazism.
“After that terrible period in our history the greatest achievement was to prove Adolf Hitler right[-wing] And the conservative, he was the exact opposite,” Weidel said. “He wasn’t a conservative, he wasn’t a libertarian, he was a communist, socialist guy, and we’re the opposite.”
“Okay,” Musk replied.
In his autobiography my fightHitler—who as leader of the German Reich 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 the German nation. He believed that Marxism was a Jewish conspiracy to control Germany and the world.
Weidel compares the views of the Nazi Party to modern-day left-wing political groups that support Palestine in the face of calls for a UN commission. Crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel. His AfD colleagues met last month Attending a secret meeting organized by former members of a militant neo-Nazi group Known for burning the Israeli flag, he said, “The AfD is the only defender of the Jewish people here in Germany.”
Wiedel is the AfD’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s snap election next month. One who previously worked in finance and his wife, who is from Sri Lanka and lives in Switzerland with their children, are presented as a relatively moderate face for the party.
It’s a point Musk raised in an op-ed he wrote for a German newspaper last month.
“The portrayal of AfD as right-wing extremists is patently false, given the group’s leader, Alice Widel, a Sri Lankan homosexual,” Musk wrote.
Ahead of Thursday’s talks, the EU said it would monitor the event to see if it had been artificially promoted to German voters, which would violate rules of the region’s comprehensive digital services law. A spokesperson for the European Commission told WIRED that it would not comment on the content of the livestream.
Weidel noted the EU’s engagement with the conversation, claiming that 150 EU Commission officials were listening in, then claimed that the DSA was a censorship tool, before adding: “You know what Adolf Hitler did? He stopped free speech. He controlled the media and without it he would never have succeeded.”
