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His comments on the choice of hard line for the German have more efforts of the billionaire to influence the country’s elections for the 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 this in a type of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Musk said in a brief video transmitted to thousands of members of the party in the eastern city of Halle.
“We do not need everything the same anywhere, it is just a wonderful type of soup,” Musk said. “You know, we need to have something to be, you pass to other countries and you feel another culture and it is exclusive, special and intelligent and that the German walker takes movements to its citizens and guarantees that it seeks the physical aptitude and well -being of the German people.
Mr. Musk’s comments occurred on Saturday, two days before the official ceremonies in Poland that commemorate the 80th anniversary of the launch of the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the maximum days of monuments in the German calendar. His criticisms in Germany brutally criticized his words and his time.
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