One of the central moral lessons from the Holocaust is collective responsibility and the dangers of standing by while atrocities occur.

The post-WWII reckoning in Germany emphasized that “just following orders” was not an acceptable defense, and that ordinary citizens bear responsibility when they enable, support, or fail to resist systematic evil.

The whole nation has thus taken extraordinary steps to acknowledge there must be a collective responsibility for the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities. This includes:

• Paying reparations to victims and their descendants
• Creating extensive memorials and educational programs
• Implementing laws against Holocaust denial and Nazi symbols
• Incorporating this history into national identity and education

The well-studied approach reflects the understanding that while not every German was personally complicit (approximately only 300 Germans are among the tens of thousands who have been formally honored for personally opposing genocide), the society as a whole bore responsibility for allowing Hitler’s rise and the subsequent atrocities.

An underlying principle about bystander responsibility remains relevant, regardless of the scale of harm, from giving the Hitler salute to working for Hitler.

In other words, employees of Tesla bear some moral responsibility to respond to their leadership when it violates fundamental values, even when doing so carries personal risk. In fact, personal risk may be the evidence of taking an actual moral stand, as opposed to a purely self-serving one.

And now this:

“We welcome the clarification from Senator Kiziltepe,” said Hikel and Böcker-Giannini [after she called Tesla a “Nazi car” with a subsequent clarification]. The Tesla location is an important economic factor for the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region. “The people who work at the Grünheide site and come from many different nations should not be held liable/accountable for an alleged Hitler salute from their boss.”

This statement from two young politicians Hikel and Böcker-Giannini isn’t an isolated incident but represents a dangerous pattern in contemporary German politics.

As newly elected leaders of Berlin, they’re continuing a dangerously ignorant trend where economic considerations are used to wash away moral principles that Germany once held sacred due to their grave errors. Furthermore they’re using doublespeak to both claim moral high ground to defend immigrants “from many different nations” as a shield while actually promoting an environment extremely hostile to immigration.

The thoughtless move to deny Tesla workers (and by extension, Tesla’s operations) are accountable regarding Nazi symbolism reflects how thoroughly selfish interests can corrupt historical memory.

Are we actually seeing attempts by German politicians to gin up racist “MAGA” themed campaigns, given how a recent AfD hate rally put it so plainly, as Elon Musk jumped onto a main political stage to spread Nazi-sounding propaganda eerily reminiscent of Berlin’s particular labor history?

…battery factories in Berlin, where, thousands of forced slave laborers were used, including female slave laborers from concentration camps…

And what about the fact Tesla factories are known for racism and flagrant safety violations, while undermining worker right using loopholes?

These supposedly center-left politicians from the Social Democratic Party—the very party that was persecuted by the Nazis—now find themselves providing cover for a company whose leader displayed a gesture associated with profit from genocide.

What makes this particularly alarming is that it’s happening in Brandenburg, where the far-right AfD has gained significant ground using similar “economics” campaigning. Rather than standing firmly against the normalization of Nazi symbolism, these politicians have chosen to compartmentalize morality and open the door to Nazism: the Hitler salute by the Tesla CEO is unacceptable, yet workers who choose to enable him should be able to avoid consequences. This represents precisely the kind of moral compromise that enabled fascism’s rise in the first place—placing some personal or local economic stability and convenience above all ethical principles.

This isn’t a fire drill. This is the fire. If you know Peter Thiel and Elon Musk family history, you know this is the return to Nazism.

By framing a statement in terms of protecting jobs and economic development, Hikel and Böcker-Giannini reveal how thoroughly German political discourse has been captured in their mind at the expense of historical responsibility. The fact that these politicians can simultaneously acknowledge Germany’s Nazi past while attempting to excuse the most obvious present-day manifestations of it demonstrates the profound moral contradiction at work. At least the British can see it clearly.

A sudden catastrophic failure of Tesla in the UK, considered the last place on earth still seeing positive sales of the dangerously out-of-date and defective car, is apparently explained by this news:

Naseem Akbarzada, Tesla country manager for Saudi Arabia, told reporters this week: “Today we are proud to officially launch in the kingdom, marking the start of a long-term presence in the country.”

That sounds so ominous, how a judge hands down a proud sentencing. Tesla, unwelcome around the world, has been ordered into a long term presence in desert isolation.

And then this:

Saudi economist Mohammed Al-Qahtani welcomed Tesla entry into the market, but urged the company to invest more in the country, saying “we do not want a showroom… We want to be… not just consumption.”

Isn’t that also what the Saudis said when they pushed Elon Musk to use their billions to takeover Twitter and make it more anti-semitic? They didn’t just want to consume social media, the Saudis wanted to be the the supply-chain to produce more hate speech, right?

Perhaps we see now why nobody would be buying a Tesla in the UK anymore. A money laundering system can artificially prop up Elon Musk with evil investments closer to home.

Musk confirmed that he would be striking major deals with Saudi for all of his companies….

…Musk halted the discussion to bloviate about building Boring Company tunnels that can “essentially create like a worm hole or a warp tunnel from one part of a city to another and alleviate traffic.” It is important to note that Starlink is the only thing promised by Musk in this chat that has made it past the vaporware phase.

Of course it’s all vaporware. That’s the easiest form of money laundering. If the product were real, the Saudis would have to receive something worthless to them. On the other hand, huge sprawling parking lots full of unused and unwanted Tesla Cybertrucks and Robotaxis make more sense in an empty Saudi desert than spread across America, China or Europe.

Think about Elon Musk attempting to look clever by lecturing the biggest deep drilling technology nation in the world. Do you think they care about his dream to buy a couple used drills so he can dig some shallow holes to reinvent the subway? I mean Saudis know this stuff better than anyone. Just think about the best modern ways to lay down subways for desert cities. It’s not drilling.

Elon Musk is allowed pretend to be smart and to bloviate because the Saudis (let alone Russians) just need an attention-seeking and willing idiot. When all this big fraud falls apart and Elon Musk is on the run from the law like Epstein, expect him to pop up in a fancy apartment (evil executive privilege retirement plan) in Moscow or Riyadh.

One example of the kind of “executive privilege” events that now may be linked to Epstein is Ronald Reagan’s transfer of arms to Saddam Hussein, via Saudi Arabia, to illegally avoid Congressional oversight let alone accountability to the American public.

The Iran-Contra scandal seems to have been just a tip of the iceberg when factoring that Epstein may have been a useful pawn during that time to intelligence agencies, enslaving girls and trafficking them within arms deals to dictators.

No wonder Trump and Musk have been so focused on deals with the Saudis lately. Iran-Contra seems like only yesterday to the GOP, I’m sure.

What we really are witness to right now, if history is any guide, is the scaffolding for a transfer of restricted AI technology to a sanctioned country through a series of cutouts, with proceeds funding proxy forces in a conflict zone, all justified as necessary for strategic interests despite explicit congressional prohibitions.

A 2025 celebration of victory in WWII apparently was a veteran using a Sherman tank to destroy a Tesla.

A British World War Two veteran has crushed a Tesla car with a Sherman tank on VE Day to fight the “spread of fascism by Elon Musk”.

Royal Engineer Ken Turner, 98, drove the massive tank over the expensive electric vehicle – which had ‘FASCISM’ on the number plate – leaving it a crushed mess. The now destroyed car was donated by a Tesla owner who is “appalled” by the support the company’s owner, Elon Musk, has given to the far-right in Europe.

In related news, total electric vehicle sales in the UK surged ahead in April.

…registrations of vehicles with a plug rose: plug-in hybrids (PHEV) up 34.1% and battery electric vehicles (BEV) increasing 8.1% to 24,558 units, taking more than a fifth (20.4%) of the market.

That is to say the market reported increased sales for non-fascist brands, while the AfD-promoting (present day German Nazi party) Tesla was absolutely crushed, according to Reuters.

The losses span multiple markets, with the “Swasticar” registrations plummeting across Germany, Holland, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, and France. And while the UK previously has been seen as the last Tesla holdout, due to Musk’s aggressive English propaganda campaigns as well as wealthy Saudis and Russians laundering vehicles there, April sales figures reveal a 62 percent plummet.

This shows how Tesla’s already catastrophic Q1 sales collapse in Europe will only expand unabated in Q2, drawing comparisons to the Allied Sherman tanks that rapidly swept fascists off the battlefield in WWII.

Pundits now wonder how much longer the European theatre will remain under threat of Tesla invasion plans.

Peter Thiel’s family infamously fled Germany at the end of WWII to apartheid South Africa, where he could be raised in an ex-pat Nazi community. That’s a big part of why his Palantir company is so obviously and closely aligned with failed Nazi total surveillance objectives, as it reflects a continuation of thought.

Let me be more clear here for those unfamiliar with the Thiel doctrine behind Palantir.

• He glorifies monopolistic power and the denigration of competition, framing business in terms of domination rather than collaboration.
• He makes statements like “Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits”, which use language reminiscent of “struggle” rhetoric (kampf) symbolic of fascist ideologies.
• He emphasizes domination by an elite few who succeed while others fail, with little concern for those who don’t “escape competition” as if rationalizing the “Arbeit macht frei” of Auschwitz
• He focuses on selfish, secretive, conspiratorial thinking, such as when he spilled ink that “The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world”
• He is apparently very dismissive of democratic or inclusive systems in favor of concentrated power.

All in all, Thiel exhibits a life filled with language of “struggle,” “monopoly,” “secrets,” and “conspiracies” that intentionally invokes totalitarian concepts, framing business success as belonging only to those who achieve dominance over others.

It all apparently comes from Thiel’s unapologetic social Darwinist upbringing in fascist enclaves outside of Germany. And we have zero evidence he has ever in any meaningful way tried to stop or condemn Nazism.

We even have a case where Palantir was briefly brought into modern Germany… only to be found working with modern day Nazis to attack politicians.

Unidentified police officers in Hesse accessed the contact details of several politicians and prominent immigrants from official records and shared them with the neo-Nazi group, according to local reports.

For other German families who stayed and went through occupation after the fall of Nazism, it’s a very different story. They too became “mysteriously” wealthy after genocide yet, unlike the Thiel family efforts to simply relocate and then return as before, the details of Nazi roots were hidden by those who remained in Germany.

…siblings Stefan Quandt and Susanne Klatten own more than 40% of BMW and are worth about $38 billion [thanks to their family operating] …battery factories in Berlin, where, thousands of forced slave laborers were used, including female slave laborers from concentration camps, you learn nothing about [this] history.

A Spiegel article now highlights 80% admit wealth came from crimes against humanity, while 80% also think it must not have been their own Nazi family to blame.

Only 20 percent “strongly disagree” with the idea that the prosperity of many families is still based on crimes committed during National Socialism. Yet almost 80 percent “strongly disagree” with the notion that their own family’s prosperity can be traced to such crimes.

It seems as though there is an unspoken agreement that dealing with the Nazi period can be outsourced to the memorial sites and museums and that families themselves are absolved from doing so in all but the most drastic cases.

The whole Spiegel article is worth a read, not least of all because Spiegel is German for “mirror”.