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Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’ [1]

['Jim Tankersley', 'Christopher F. Schuetze']

Date: 2025-01-27

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’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything” Mr. Musk said in a short video that was broadcast to thousands of party members in the eastern city of Halle.

“We don’t want everything to be the same everywhere where it’s just one big sort of soup,” Mr. Musk said. “You know, we want to have something where it’s, you go to different countries and you experience a different culture and it is unique and special and good and — that the German government takes actions to protect its citizens and makes sure that it seeks the health and well-being of the German people.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/world/europe/musk-germany-afd-auschwitz.html

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