Tech mogul said Germans should not be ‘guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents’
“No normal Pole should buy a Tesla anymore. There needs to be a serious and tough response to this, including something like a consumer boycott,” Nitras (PO) told private TOK FM radio broadcaster on Monday.
Musk said that the AfD was the "best hope for Germany," and urged the crowd to be proud of their German identity.
Tesla owners are boycotting the popular electric vehicle over founder Elon Musk’s controversial salute at the inauguration of President Donald Trump, which was widely compared to the Roman salute used by the Nazis.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO showed up on video Saturday at an event to support German chancellor candidate Alice Weidel.
The Tesla CEO addressed the crowd alongside party leader Alice Weidel, saying that the party is the “best hope for Germany” and calling to “preserve German culture” and “protect the ...
Brexit campaign group - is now targeting Elon Musk after projecting a video of him making what appears to be a far-right salute on the Tesla factory in Berlin
Mr Tusk denounced the words as "all too familiar and ominous", and his tourism minister, Sławomir Nitras, has gone even further and called for Polish citizens - around 6 million of whom died in the Holocaust - to launch a boycott of Tesla vehicles in response.
The richest man in the world is backing far-right parties against a political establishment that has failed to deliver.
Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.
Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt."