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His comments on the election last well for billionaires’ efforts to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month.
By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F. Schuetze
Berlin reports
Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party this weekend that the country has “too much of a focus on past guilt,” an apparent effort to wipe away the long shadow of the Nazis that has influenced generations of Germans to quarantine extreme political parties from public life.
“It is intelligent to be proud of German culture, German values, and lose that in a type of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Mr. Musk in a brief video touched thousands of members of the party in the east city of Halle.
“We don’t need everything to be the same anywhere, it’s just a wonderful kind of soup,” Musk said. “You know, we need to have something where it is, you go to other countries and you feel another culture and it’s exclusive, special and intelligent and that the German walker takes movements to its citizens and guarantees that it seeks the physical fitness and well-being of the German people.
Musk’s comments came here on Saturday, two days before the official ceremonies in Poland commemorate the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the maximum commemorative days in the German calendar. His critics in Germany have brutally criticized his words and time.
“The enthusiasm of the local South African laon musk for right-wing German radicals, for German pride, other German people and German hand signals is remarkable,” wrote journalist Mathieu von Rohr in Spiegel, one of Germany’s largest magazines.
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