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The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, [a] or the Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany. The salute is performed by extending the right arm from the shoulder into the air with a straightened hand.
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Feb 27, 2015 · The first time the salute can be seen is in the Jacques-Louis David painting Oath of the Horatii created in 1784. However, it wasn’t the Nazis who adopted this salute first, but the Italian Fascist party, who in turn adopted it from earlier Italian nationalist and proto-fascist Gabriele d’Annunzio.
Jul 4, 2021 · There is, however, no evidence that anyone in ancient Rome ever used the form of the straight-arm salute that was used by the Italian Fascists and German Nazis. The true origins of the Nazi salute are far more strange. The salute’s traceable history begins with a late eighteenth-century French Neoclassical painter.
Feb 26, 2019 · During the years that led to WWII, the word “Nazi” was used as a derogatory term against the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP, translated in English as National Socialist German Worker’s Party.
Mar 12, 2016 · In the 20th century, the Nazi salute was used widely by fascist governments and groups, including the Italian Fascists and the Spanish Falangists.
After the Nazi rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, it became common for Germans to greet each other with a stiff-armed salute and the words “Heil Hitler.” The “German Greeting,” as it became known, was a ritual of the cult of Adolf Hitler.
Aug 10, 2018 · Where did the Nazi salute come from? The Hitler salute, or the “Sieg Heil” salute, is one of the most recognizable symbols of Nazism. Germany adopted a version of the Roman salute to show mass...
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