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Elon Musk Calls Hitler “Left-Wing Socialist,” Experts Refute

8/10/2026

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Elon Musk posted on X that Adolf Hitler was a left-wing socialist, citing Alice Smith and writing “True.”
He later shared CEO Brivael Le Pogam’s claim that labeling Hitler far-right is a scam, prompting X users to fact-check with Holocaust Encyclopedia and Britannica, which call Nazi Party far-right.
Experts said the Nazi Party’s “National Socialist” name does not make Hitler a socialist, noting the 1933 purge of communists and Jews.

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Elon Musk posted on X that Adolf Hitler was a left-wing socialist, citing Alice Smith and writing “True.”
He later shared CEO Brivael Le Pogam’s claim that labeling Hitler far-right is a scam, prompting X users to fact-check with Holocaust Encyclopedia and Britannica, which call Nazi Party far-right.
Experts said the Nazi Party’s “National Socialist” name does not make Hitler a socialist, noting the 1933 purge of communists and Jews.