The co-chair of the AfD has told Elon Musk that Adolf Hitler was a communist. Alice Weidel, the co-chairwoman of the Alternative for Germany party, told the controversial billionaire that the "greatest success" of the postwar years was to rebrand him as far-right.

Elon Musk and a German far-right leader appeared to come to a truly bizarre agreement during a livestreamed X chat Thursday: Adolf Hitler was a communist. Musk had been plugging the chat with the AfD (Alternative for Germany) co-leader Alice Weidel for days,

Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X, Mr. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream.