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By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F. Schuetze
Berlin reports
Elon Musk told a rally of the choice of hard line to the right for Germany this weekend that the country has “too much emphasis on beyond guilt”, an obvious effort to eliminate the shadow of the Nazis which has influenced generations of Germans in quarantine excessive political parties in 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 came on Saturday, two days before official ceremonies in Poland commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the most significant days of memorial on the German calendar. His critics in Germany sharply criticized his words and his timing.
“The enthusiasm of the South African Elon Musk for the German German radicals, for German pride, for the other Germans and the German hand signs is remarkable,” wrote the journalist Mathieu von Rohr in Spiegel, one of Germany’s greatest magazines .
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