“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.

Elon Musk urged an audience at a German far-right political rally not to feel “guilty” about their country’s history. The surprise speech comes less than a week after he was accused of making a “Sieg Heil”-style salute while giving a speech during President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs. Clockwise from upper left: A dance troupe performs a musical revue titled “Heil Hitler” circa 1938; Elon Musk on Monday;