Musk Promotes AfD Leader Convicted For Nazi Slogan

From a May 2024 report:

Björn Höcke, who leads the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Thuringia, was on trial for saying the words “Everything for Germany!” at a May 2021 rally. The slogan is associated with the SA stormtroopers, who played a key role in the Nazis’ rise to power.

Höcke – a former history teacher – had denied knowing the phrase’s roots. The court in the eastern city of Halle convicted the 52-year-old of using symbols of a Nazi organisation and fined him €13,000.

DW News reports that the money will go to a grassroots anti-extremism programme. However, Höcke escaped the maximum sentence of three years in prison and being barred from public office.

Per Wikipedia, Hocke has advocated striking down German laws against Holocaust denial. In a speech to the AfD last month, Musk called for Germans to stop feeling guilty about the country’s Nazi past.

Elon Musk just amplified Björn Höcke—a leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, an extremist who called the country’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” demanded a “180-degree turn” in how Germany remembers Nazi crimes, and was convicted for using a Nazi slogan.

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