Elon Musk has been condemned as "a mixture of mad and right-wing extremist" by professor Jens-Christian Wagner, a historian who runs the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, the largest in Germany.

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

Munich's Deutsches Museum said a "prominent" position of an individual in an exhibition could be seen as "an uncritical tribute."

The museum said they had decided to cover the portrait of Musk because it is problematic to glorify living figures. Musk is the only living person included in the exhibition. In a

The automaker saw sales of its EVs drop 13% in the European Union in 2024, and is facing growing pressure as rivals launch a wave of cheaper EVs.

Billionaire Elon Musk was ripped in a post online by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for "offensive" and "inappropriate" remarks about Nazis.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

Musk then slapped his chest with his right hand, before flinging it diagonally upwards, palm face down. He turned around to audience members behind the podium, and repeated the gesture. “My heart goes out to you,

The world’s richest man set out on a quest to boost the European powerhouse’s far-right opposition.

The Tesla founder has been condemned in Germany for the gesture he made on stage at the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.