So…you want to try to tell Germany it was just all because of autism?
While Billionaire Elon Musk’s only response to the outrage after he gave a Nazi salute behind the Presidential seal during a Trump rally on Monday, has only been to tweet, “The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.” But in country that Adolph Hitler terrorized as it’s leader for 12 years from 1933 to 1945 and where that particular salute is illegal, a museum was not as dismissive, removing a portrait of Musk from its space technology exhibit.
According news report, the Deutsches Museum of science and technology in Munich had featured Musk among “visionaries from the past and future” in its “Astronautics” gallery that also included Rocket scientists Hermann Oberth, who coincidence aided the Nazis in World War II and was awarded Germany’s Merit Cross his one time student Max Valier were among the other figures featured on the display in the gallery. Curators covered Musk’s portrait, which has been on display for three years saying that the information board only had enough space to add a few lines of text about each figure, making it difficult to add context as current events developed. “It can always be problematic to honor people who are still alive so prominently as part of an exhibition,” a museum spokesperson said following the decision.
On Monday, Musk was addressing a crowd who was celebrating the Inauguration of Donald Trump and was thanked attendees for “making it happen.” He then slapped his right hand against his chest before raising his right arm in an upwards diagonal gesture, with his fingers together and palm facing down. He turned around and repeated this salute to the audience members seated behind him.
While in the United States, supporters of Musk and Donald Trump attempted to defend Musk by suggesting from ranging a mental disorder to noting that it the a “Roman Salute” the proper name of the salute. Others however have been expressing regret for buying Tesla cars while antifascists, one from the group Led By Donkeys from the United Kingdom and another Germany’s Center for Political Beauty, projected an image of Musk doing the salute onto Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin alongside the words “Heil Tesla.” They announced their deed on Twitter.
Musk however has been supporting with the German fascist party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) a organization that takes its name from the a slogan of the Nazi stormtroopers and engraved on their daggers. Last week, Musk livestreamed on Twitter a chat with Alice Weidel, the party’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s Feb. 23 election, amplifying its message ahead of the vote and tweeting that “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The livestream is being investigated as an illegal party donation, breaching Germany’s electoral law, and Weidel is seen as a longshot in win on Feb. 23.
While addressing the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 21, current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed the salute when asked about it. “We have the freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany. Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire. And what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme-right positions.”
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