India, Jan. 11 -- During a livestream on social media platform X, comments by Elon Musk and German far-right party AfD's leader Alice Weidel about Adolf Hitler being a communist provoked backlash from several users.

Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD (Alternative For Germany) party said during a livestream on X with more than 2.2 million users watching, said "The National Socialists (Nazis) as the name suggests were socialists".

Musk also agreed with her assessment saying, "Yes, very much so. They nationalised industries like crazy."

Weidel went on to claim that Adolf Hitler was a communist and that he had been wrongly labelled as far-right and conservative.

"He was a communist and he considered himself a socialist. They state-funded pri...