By autumn 1923, or perhaps as early as 1921, some members of the Nazi Party were using the rigid, outstretched right arm salute to greet Hitler, who responded by raising his own right hand …

The raised arm of the German salute, that has quite a different style! I made it the salute of the Party long after the Duce had adopted it. I'd read the description of the sitting of the Diet of …

Sep 19, 2022 · But the salute as a unifier — and as a path to punish those who don’t conform by immediately raising their arms — was present before Hitler came to power.

Jul 4, 2021 · Most notably, a photograph included in a souvenir album depicting Act IV, Tableau 1 of the play shows Ben-Hur greeting Sheikh Ilderim by saluting him with his right arm in the air …

Feb 27, 2015 · “I’d read the description of the sitting of the Diet of Worms,” explained Hitler in 1942, “in the course of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. It was to show him …

For most of us, it’s an image of Adolf Hitler, arm outstretched, surrounded by a sea of followers doing the same. This gesture, also known as the Hitler salute, is one of the most infamous …

The Nazi or Hitler salute debuted in Nazi Germany in the 1930s as a way to pay homage to Adolf Hitler. It consists of raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down. In Nazi Germany, it …

Jan 5, 2023 · It is believed that Adolf Hitler adapted the “Hitler salute” from Benito Mussolini’s fascists. Mussolini had already established himself as Italy’s dictator by late 1922, and …

Feb 4, 2010 · Already in 1933, the Nazi Interior Minister, Wilhelm Frick, wrote in an inter-ministerial memorandum that now as the Weimar Republic was a thing of the past, ‘The Hitler …

For most of us, it’s a chilling image—a raised right arm, palm facing down, forever tied to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Also known as the “Hitler salute,” this gesture became a powerful …