{"id":2139,"date":"2025-02-18T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:11:32","slug":"did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Elon Musk\u2019s Grandparents Support the Nazis? A Look Into the Controversial Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2139\" class=\"elementor elementor-2139\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdbfbb5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fdbfbb5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3be427a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3be427a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Yes, Elon Musk&#8217;s father, Errol Musk, has stated that Elon Musk&#8217;s maternal grandparents, Joshua and Winnifred Haldeman, supported Hitler and were members of the Nazi Party in Canada. In an interview, Errol Musk mentioned, &#8220;They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff. But they didn&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t think they knew what the Nazis were doing. But they were in the German Nazi party but in Canada.&#8221;<\/p><p>However, it&#8217;s important to note that these claims have been met with skepticism, and there is no concrete evidence to confirm that Joshua and Winnifred Haldeman were official members of the Nazi Party. Some sources have labeled these assertions as unproven.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2140\" src=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-1024x427.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-1024x427.png 1024w, https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-768x320.png 768w, https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p><p>Joshua Haldeman was known to be a political activist in Canada, leading the Canadian branch of the Technocracy movement and running for parliament with the Social Credit Party. Later, he moved his family to South Africa, where he expressed support for apartheid policies.<\/p><p>In summary, while Errol Musk has made claims about his in-laws&#8217; alleged Nazi affiliations, these statements lack definitive evidence and remain unverified.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style='clear:both'><\/div><div  class='the_champ_counter_container the_champ_horizontal_counter'><div class='the_champ_counter_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\"><\/div><ul class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><li style=\"padding:7.35px 0 !important\" class=\"the_champ_twitter_tweet\" data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\" data-counturl=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\" data-text=\"Did+Elon+Musk%E2%80%99s+Grandparents+Support+the+Nazis%3F+A+Look+Into+the+Controversial+Claims\" data-via=\"\" data-lang=\"\" >Tweet<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?\"http\":\"https\";if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+\":\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, \"script\", \"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/li><li style=\"padding:7.35px 0 !important;margin-top:-1px!important\" class=\"the_champ_pinterest_pin\"><a data-pin-lang=\"\" href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><\/li><li style=\"padding:7.35px 0!important;margin-top:-2px!important\" class=\"the_champ_linkedin_share\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: <\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><li style=\"padding:7.35px 0 !important\" class=\"the_champ_facebook_share\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/did-elon-musks-grandparents-support-the-nazis-a-look-into-the-controversial-claims\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><\/ul><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div><div style='clear:both'><\/div><p>Yes, Elon Musk&#8217;s father, Errol Musk, has stated that Elon Musk&#8217;s maternal grandparents, Joshua and Winnifred Haldeman, supported Hitler and were members of the Nazi Party in Canada. In an interview, Errol Musk mentioned, &#8220;They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff. But they didn&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t think they knew what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-diaspora","category-news","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmtv.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}