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The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute (German: Hitlergruß, lit. ‘Hitler greeting’, IPA: [ˈhɪtlɐˌɡʁuːs] (listen);^[1] also called by the Nazi Party deutscher Gruß, ‘German greeting’, IPA: [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈɡʁuːs] (listen)),^[2] 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. Usually, the person offering the salute would say «Heil Hitler!» (lit. ‘Hail Hitler!’, IPA: [ˌhaɪl ˈhɪtlɐ] (listen)),^[3] «Heil, mein Führer!» (‘Hail, my leader!’), or «Sieg Heil!» (‘Hail victory!’). It was adopted in the 1930s by the Nazi Party to signal obedience to the party’s leader, Adolf Hitler, and to glorify the German nation (and later the German war effort). The salute was mandatory for civilians^[4] but mostly optional for military personnel, who retained a traditional military salute until the failed assassination attempt on Hitler^[5] on 20 July 1944.

Use of this salute is illegal in modern-day Germany (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a) and Austria (Verbotsgesetz 1947), and is also considered a criminal offence in modern-day Poland^[6] and Slovakia.^[6] The use of any Nazi phrases associated with the salute is also forbidden.^[7] In Italy, it is a criminal offence only if used with the intent to «reinstate the defunct National Fascist Party», or to exalt or promote its ideology or members.^[8] In Canada and most of Europe (including the Czech Republic,^[9] France, the Netherlands, Sweden,^[6] Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Russia), displaying the salute is not in itself a criminal offence, but constitutes hate speech if used for propagating the Nazi ideology.^[10][11][6]

Description[edit]

The salute was executed by extending the right arm stiff to an upward 45° angle and then straightening the hand so that it is parallel to the arm.^[12] Usually, an utterance of «Sieg Heil«, «Heil Hitler!«, or «Heil!» accompanied the gesture.
If one saw an acquaintance at a distance, it was enough to simply raise the right hand.^[12] If one encountered a superior, one would also say «Heil Hitler«.^[12] If physical disability prevented raising the right arm, it was acceptable to raise the left.^[13]

Hitler gave the salute in two ways. When reviewing his troops or crowds, he generally used the traditional stiff-armed salute. When greeting individuals who saluted, he used a modified version of the salute, bending his right arm at a 90° angle with the elbow facing forward while holding an open hand with the bottom of the palm facing towards those greeted at shoulder height and the face of the palm parallel with the sky. It was also adopted by those with rank who would themselves be saluted.^[14]

Origins and adoption[edit]

The spoken greeting «Heil» became popular in the pan-German movement around 1900.^[15] It was used by the followers of Georg Ritter von Schönerer, head of the Austrian Alldeutsche Partei («Pan-German Party») who considered himself leader of the Austrian Germans, and who was described by Carl E. Schorske as «The strongest and most thoroughly consistent anti-Semite that Austria produced» before the coming of Hitler. Hitler took both the «Heil» greeting – which was popularly used in his «hometown» of Linz when he was a boy^[16] – and the title of «Führer» for the head of the Nazi Party from Schönerer,^[15][17] whom he admired.^[18]

The extended arm saluting gesture is widely, and erroneously, believed to be based on an ancient Roman custom, but no known Roman work of art depicts it, nor does any extant Roman text describe it.^[19] Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting.^[20][21][22] The gesture and its identification with ancient Rome was advanced in other French neoclassic art.^[23]

In 1892, Francis Bellamy introduced the American Pledge of Allegiance, which was to be accompanied by a visually similar saluting gesture, referred to as the Bellamy salute.^{[24][notes 1]} A raised arm gesture was then used in the 1899 American stage production of Ben-Hur,^[25] and its 1907 film adaptation.^[26] The gesture was further elaborated upon in several early Italian films.^[27] Of special note was the 1914 silent film Cabiria, whose screenplay had contributions from the Italian ultra-nationalist Gabriele d’Annunzio,^[28] arguably a forerunner of Italian Fascism.^[29] In 1919, when he led the occupation of Fiume, d’Annunzio used the style of salute depicted in the film as a neo-Imperialist ritual and the Italian Fascist Party quickly adopted it.^[30]

By autumn 1923, 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 crooked back at the elbow, palm opened upwards, in a gesture of acceptance.^[31] In 1926, the Nazi salute was made compulsory for all party members.^[32] It functioned as a display of commitment to the Party and a declaration of principle to the outside world.^[33] Gregor Strasser wrote in 1927 that the greeting in and of itself was a pledge of loyalty to Hitler, as well as a symbol of personal dependence on the Führer.^[34] Even so, the drive to gain acceptance did not go unchallenged.^[33]

Some party members questioned the legitimacy of the so-called Roman salute, employed by Fascist Italy, as un-Germanic.^[33] In response, efforts were made to establish its pedigree by inventing a tradition after the fact.^[33] In June 1928, Rudolf Hess published an article titled «The Fascist Greeting», which claimed that the gesture was used in Germany as early as 1921, before the Nazis had heard about the Italian Fascists.^[35] He admits in the article: «The NSDAP’s introduction of the raised-arm greeting approximately two years ago still gets some people’s blood boiling. Its opponents suspect the greeting of being un-Germanic. They accuse it of merely aping the [Italian] Fascists»,^[36] but goes on to ask, «and even if the decree from two years ago [Hess’ order that all party members use it] is seen as an adaption of the Fascist gesture, is that really so terrible»?^[36] Ian Kershaw points out that Hess did not deny the likely influence from Fascist Italy, even if indeed the salute had been used sporadically in 1921 as Hess claimed.^[37]

On the night of 3 January 1942, Hitler said of the origins of the salute:^[38]

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 Worms, in the course of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. It was to show him that he was not being confronted with arms, but with peaceful intentions. In the days of Frederick the Great, people still saluted with their hats, with pompous gestures. In the Middle Ages the serfs humbly doffed their bonnets, whilst the noblemen gave the German salute. It was in the Ratskeller at Bremen, about the year 1921, that I first saw this style of salute. It must be regarded as a survival of an ancient custom, which originally signified: «See, I have no weapon in my hand!» I introduced the salute into the Party at our first meeting in Weimar. The SS at once gave it a soldierly style. It’s from that moment that our opponents honored us with the epithet «dogs of Fascists».

Nazi chants[edit]

Nazi chants like «Heil Hitler!» and «Sieg Heil!» were prevalent across Nazi Germany, sprouting in mass rallies and even regular greetings alike.

In Nazi Germany, the Nazi chants «Heil Hitler!» and «Sieg Heil!» were the formulas used by the regime: when meeting someone it was customary to greet with the words «Heil Hitler!», while «Sieg Heil!» was a verbal salute used at mass rallies. Specifically to the cry of an officer of the word Sieg (‘victory’), the crowd responded with Heil (‘hail’).^[39] For example, at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Rudolf Hess ended his climactic speech with the words «The Party is Hitler. But Hitler is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler. Hitler! Sieg Heil!»^[40] At his total war speech delivered in 1943, audiences shouted «Sieg Heil!», as Joseph Goebbels solicited from them «a kind of plebiscitary ‘Ja‘» to total war^[41] (ja meaning ‘yes’ in German).

On 11 March 1945, less than two months before the capitulation of Nazi Germany, a memorial for the dead of the war was held in Marktschellenberg, a small town near Hitler’s Berghof residence.^[42] The British historian Ian Kershaw remarks that the power of the Führer cult and the «Hitler Myth» had vanished, which is evident from this report:

When the leader of the Wehrmacht unit at the end of his speech called for a Sieg Heil for the Führer, it was returned neither by the Wehrmacht present, nor by the Volkssturm, nor by the spectators of the civilian population who had turned up. This silence of the masses … probably reflects better than anything else, the attitudes of the population.^[42]

The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a group of middle-class teenagers who consciously separated themselves from Nazism and its culture, greeting each other with «Swing-Heil!» and addressing one another as «old-hot-boy».^[43] This playful behaviour was dangerous for participants in the subculture; on 2 January 1942, Heinrich Himmler ordered that the leaders be put in concentration camps to be drilled and beaten.^[43]

The form «Heil, mein Führer!» (‘Hail, my Leader!’) was for direct address to Hitler,^[44] while «Sieg Heil» was repeated as a chant on public occasions.^[44] Written communications would be concluded with either «mit deutschem Gruß» («with German regards»), or with «Heil Hitler».^[45] In correspondence with high-ranking Nazi officials, letters were usually signed with «Heil Hitler».^[46]

From 1933 to 1945[edit]

Under a decree issued by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on 13 July 1933 (one day before the ban on all non-Nazi parties), all German public employees were required to use the salute.^[4] The decree also required the salute during the singing of the national anthem and the «Horst-Wessel-Lied».^[4] It stipulated that «anyone not wishing to come under suspicion of behaving in a consciously negative fashion will therefore render the Hitler Greeting,»^[4] and its use quickly spread as people attempted to avoid being labelled as a dissident.^[47] A rider to the decree, added two weeks later, stipulated that if physical disability prevented raising of the right arm, «then it is correct to carry out the Greeting with the left arm.»^[13] On 27 September, prison inmates were forbidden to use the salute,^[48] as were Jews by 1937.^[49]

By the end of 1934, special courts were established to punish those who refused to salute.^[50] Offenders, such as Protestant preacher Paul Schneider, faced the possibility of being sent to a concentration camp.^[50] Foreigners were not exempt from intimidation if they refused to salute. For example, the Portuguese Consul General was beaten by members of the Sturmabteilung for remaining seated in a car and not saluting a procession in Hamburg.^[51] Reactions to inappropriate use were not merely violent but sometimes bizarre.^[52] For example, a memo dated 23 July 1934 sent to local police stations stated: «There have been reports of traveling vaudeville performers training their monkeys to give the German Greeting. … see to it that said animals are destroyed.»^[52]

The salute soon became part of everyday life, a historically unique phenomenon that politicised all communication in Germany for twelve years, superseding all prior forms of greeting, such as «Grüß Gott» («Hello»), «Guten Tag» («Good day»), and «Auf Wiederseh(e)n» («Goodbye»).^[53] Postmen used the greeting when they knocked on people’s doors to deliver packages or letters.^[53] Small metal signs that reminded people to use the Hitler salute were displayed in public squares and on telephone poles and street lights throughout Germany.^[54] Department store clerks greeted customers with «Heil Hitler, how may I help you?»^[53] Dinner guests brought glasses etched with the words «Heil Hitler» as house gifts.^[53] The salute was required of all persons passing the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, site of the climax of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which the government had made into a shrine to the Nazi dead; so many pedestrians avoided this mandate by detouring through the small Viscardigasse behind that the passage acquired the nickname «Dodgers’ Alley» (Drückebergergasse).^[55] The daughter of the American Ambassador to Germany, Martha Dodd, describes the first time she saw the salute:

The first time I met von Ribbentrop was at a luncheon we gave at the Embassy. He was tall and slender, with a vague blond handsomeness. Outstanding among all the guests, Ribbentrop arrived in Nazi uniform. Most Nazis came to diplomatic functions in ordinary suits unless the affair was extremely formal. His manner of shaking hands was an elaborate ceremony in itself. He held out his hand, then retreated and held your hand at arm’s length, lowered his arm stiffly by his side, then raised the arm swiftly in a Nazi salute, just barely missing your nose. All the time he was staring at you with such intensity you were wondering what new sort of mesmerism he thought he was effecting. The whole ritual was performed with such self-conscious dignity and in such silence that hardly a word was whispered while Ribbentrop made his exhibitionistic acquaintance with the guests present. To me the procedure was so ridiculous I could scarcely keep a straight face.^[56]

Children were indoctrinated at an early age.^[57] Kindergarten children were taught to raise their hand to the proper height by hanging their lunch bags across the raised arm of their teacher.^[57] At the beginning of first grade primers was a lesson on how to use the greeting.^[57] The greeting found its way into fairy tales, including classics like Sleeping Beauty.^[57] Students and teachers would salute each other at the beginning and end of the school day, between classes, or whenever an adult entered the classroom.^[58]

In 1935, at the end of Hans Spemann’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, he gave a Nazi salute.^[59]

Some athletes used the Nazi salute in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as they passed by Hitler in the reviewing stand.^[60] This was done by delegates from Afghanistan, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Bolivia, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy and Turkey.^[60] The Bulgarian athletes performed the Nazi salute and broke into a goose-step;^[60] Turkish athletes maintained the salute all around the track.^[61] There is some confusion over the use of the salute, since the stiff-arm Nazi salute could have been mistaken for an Olympic salute, with the right arm held out at a slight angle to the right from the shoulder.^[60] According to the American sports writer Jeremy Schaap, only half of the athletes from Austria performed a Nazi salute, while the other half gave an Olympic salute. According to the historian Richard Mandell, there are conflicting reports on whether athletes from France performed a Nazi salute or an Olympic Salute.^[61] In football, the England football team bowed to pressure from the British Foreign Office and performed the salute during a friendly match on 14 May 1938.^[62]

Jehovah’s Witnesses came into conflict with the Nazi regime because they refused to salute Adolf Hitler with the Nazi salute, believing that it conflicted with their worship of God. Because refusing to salute Hitler was considered a crime, Jehovah’s Witnesses were arrested, and their children attending school were expelled, detained and separated from their families.^[63]

Military use[edit]

The Wehrmacht refused to adopt the Hitler salute officially and was able for a time to maintain its customs.^[64] A compromise edict from the Reich Defense Ministry, issued on 19 September 1933, required the Hitler salute of soldiers and uniformed civil servants while singing the «Horst-Wessel-Lied» and national anthem, and in non-military encounters both within and outside the Wehrmacht (for example, when greeting members of the civilian government). At all other times they were permitted to use their traditional salutes.^[64] However, according to (pre-Nazi) Reichswehr and Wehrmacht protocol, the traditional military salute was prohibited when the saluting soldier was not wearing a uniform headgear (helmet or cap). Because of this, all bareheaded salutes used the Nazi salute, making it de facto mandatory in most situations.^[65]

Full adoption of the Hitler salute by the military was discussed in January 1944 at a conference regarding traditions in the military at Hitler’s headquarters. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Armed Forces, had expressed a desire to standardize the salute across all organizations in Germany.^[66] On 23 July 1944, several days after the failed assassination attempt, Goebbels suggested to Hitler that the military be ordered to fully adopt the Hitler salute as a show of loyalty, since Army officers had been responsible for the assassination attempt.^[67][68] Hitler approved the suggestion without emotion, and the order went into effect on 24 July 1944.^[67][68]

On the night of 3 January 1942, Hitler stated the following about the compromise edict of 1933:^[38]

I imposed the German salute for the following reason. I’d given orders, at the beginning, that in the Army I should not be greeted with the German salute. But many people forgot. Fritsch drew his conclusions, and punished all who forgot to give me the military salute, with fourteen days’ confinement to barracks. I, in turn, drew my conclusions and introduced the German salute likewise into the Army.

Satiric responses[edit]

Despite indoctrination and punishment, the salute was ridiculed by some people. Since heil is also the imperative of the German verb heilen (‘to heal’), a common joke in Nazi Germany was to reply with, «Is he sick?» «Am I a doctor?» or «You heal him!»^[69] Jokes were also made by distorting the phrase. For example, «Heil Hitler» might become «Ein Liter» (‘One liter’)^[69] or «Drei Liter» (‘Three Liter’).^[70]
Cabaret performer Karl Valentin would quip, «It’s lucky that Hitler’s name wasn’t ‘Kräuter’. Otherwise, we’d have to go around yelling Heilkräuter (‘medicinal herbs’)».^[69] Similar puns were made involving «-bronn» (rendering «Heilbronn», the name of a German city), and «-butt» (rendering «Heilbutt», the German word for ‘halibut’).

Satirical use of the salute dates back to anti-Nazi propaganda in Germany before 1933. In 1932, photomontage artist John Heartfield used Hitler’s modified version, with the hand bent over the shoulder, in a poster that linked Hitler to Big Business. A giant figure representing right-wing capitalists stands behind Hitler, placing money in his hand, suggesting «backhand» donations. The caption is, «the meaning of the Hitler salute» and «Millions stand behind me».^[71] Heartfield was forced to flee in 1933 after the Nazi seizure of power in Germany.

Another example is a cartoon by New Zealand political cartoonist David Low, mocking the Night of the Long Knives. Run in the Evening Standard on 3 July 1934, it shows Hitler with a smoking gun grimacing at terrified SA men with their hands up. The caption reads: «They salute with both hands now».^[72] When Achille Starace proposed that Italians should write Evviva Il Duce in letters, Mussolini wrote an editorial in Il Popolo d’Italia mocking the idea.^[73]

Post-1945[edit]

Today in Germany, Nazi salutes in written form, vocally, and even straight-extending the right arm as a saluting gesture (with or without the phrase), are illegal.^[74][75] The offence is punishable by up to three years in prison (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a).^[75][76] Usage for art, teaching and science is allowed unless «the existence of an insult results from the form of the utterance or the circumstances under which it occurred.»^[76] Use of the salute, or any phrases associated with the salute, has also been illegal in Austria since the end of World War II.

In Germany, usage that is «ironic and clearly critical of the Hitler Greeting» is exempt, which has led to legal debates as to what constitutes ironic use.^[77] One case involved Prince Ernst August of Hanover who was brought to court after using the gesture as a commentary on the behavior of an unduly zealous airport baggage inspector.^[77] On 23 November 2007, the Amtsgericht Cottbus sentenced Horst Mahler to six months of imprisonment without parole for having, according to his own claims, ironically performed the Hitler salute when reporting to prison for a nine-month term a year earlier.^[78] The following month, a pensioner named Roland T was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog Adolf to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command «Heil Hitler!» was uttered.^[79]

The Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled in 2014 that Nazi salutes do not breach hate crime laws if expressed as one’s personal opinion, but only if they are used in attempt to propagate Nazi ideology.^[10][11]

Modified versions of the salute are sometimes used by neo-Nazis. One such version is the so-called «Kühnen salute» with extended thumb, index and middle finger, which is also a criminal offence in Germany.^[80] In written correspondence, the number 88 is sometimes used by some neo-Nazis as a substitute for «Heil Hitler» («H» as the eighth letter of the alphabet).^[81] Swiss neo-Nazis were reported to use a variant of the Kühnengruss, though extending one’s right arm over their head and extending said three fingers has a different historical source for Switzerland, as the first three Eidgenossen or confederates are often depicted with this motion. Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon often raise their arms in a Nazi-style salute.^[82][83]

The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a South African neo-Nazi organization known for its militant advocacy of white separatism,^[84][85] has espoused brown uniforms as well as Nazi German-esque flags, insignia, and salutes at meetings and public rallies.^[86] Hundreds of supporters in 2010 delivered straight-arm salutes outside the funeral for AWB leader Eugène Terre’Blanche, who was murdered by two black farm workers over an alleged wage dispute.^[87][88]

On 28 May 2012, BBC current affairs programme Panorama examined the issues of racism, antisemitism and football hooliganism, which it claimed were prevalent among Polish and Ukrainian football supporters. The two countries hosted the international football competition UEFA Euro 2012.^[89]

On 16 March 2013, Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis of AEK Athens F.C. was handed a life ban from the Greek national team for performing the salute after scoring a goal against Veria F.C. in Athens’ Olympic Stadium.^[90]

On 18 July 2015, The Sun published an image of the British Royal Family from private film shot in 1933 or 1934, showing Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen, then a young girl) and the Queen Mother both performing a Nazi salute, accompanied by Edward VIII, taken from 17 seconds of home footage (also released by The Sun).^[91] The footage ignited controversy in the UK,^[92] and there have been questions as to whether the release of this footage was appropriate.^[93] Buckingham Palace described the release of this footage as «disappointing»,^[94] and considered pursuing legal action against The Sun,^[95] whereas Stig Abell (managing director of The Sun) said that the footage was «a matter of national historical significance to explore what was going on in the [1930s] ahead of the Second World War». Abell responded to criticism by assuring that The Sun was not suggesting «anything improper on the part of the Queen or indeed the Queen Mum».^[96]

American white supremacist Richard B. Spencer drew considerable media attention in the weeks following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, where, at a National Policy Institute conference, he quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews.^[97] In response to his cry «Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!», a number of his supporters gave the Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the Sieg Heil chant.^[98][99]

CNN fired political commentator Jeffrey Lord on 10 August 2017, after he tweeted «Sieg Heil!» to Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, suggesting Carusone was a fascist.^{[100][101][102]}

In August 2021, a Michigan man named Paul Marcum gave the Nazi salute during a dispute over mask mandates and was fired from his job as a tennis instructor after Birmingham Public Schools announced that it would not tolerate any acts of racism, disrespect, violence, or inequitable treatment of any person.^[103]

Incidents involving North American students[edit]

In May 2018, students at Baraboo High School, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, appeared to perform a Nazi salute in a photograph taken before their junior prom. The image went viral on social media six months later, sparking outrage. The school decided the students could not be punished because of their First Amendment rights.^[104][105]

In November 2018, a group of students of Pacifica High School of Garden Grove Unified School District in California were shown in a video giving the Nazi salute and singing Erika. The incident took place at an after-hours off-campus student athletics banquet. The school administration did not learn about the incident until March 2019, at which time the students were disciplined. The school did not release details of what the discipline entailed, but released a statement saying that they would continue to deal with the incident «in collaboration with agencies dedicated to anti-bias education.»^[106] On 20 August 2019, the school district announced that it was reopening the investigation into the incident because new photographs and another video has surfaced of the event, along with «new allegations» and «new claims». Parents and teachers criticized the school’s administration for their initial secrecy about the incident, for which the school’s principal apologized.^[107]

In March 2019, students from Newport Beach, California, attending a private party made a swastika from red-and-white plastic party cups and gave Nazi salutes over it. Some of the students may have been from Newport Harbor High School of Newport-Mesa Unified School District, a very large district which encompasses 58 square miles and includes the cities of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. Officials from the district condemned the students’ behavior, and said they were working with law enforcement to collect information on the incident.^[108]

On February 1, 2022, one of the pupils from Charles H. Best Middle School in North York, a district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, performed a Nazi salute to a Jewish student while another who allegedly built a swastika, which led to the Toronto District School Board to launch an investigation and further condemnation by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.^[109]

Ku Klux Klan[edit]

Among other gestures used by the Ku Klux Klan, the «Klan salute» is similar to the Nazi salute, the difference being that it is performed using the left arm and not the right, and that often the fingers of the hand are splayed and not held tightly together. The four fingers represent the four Ks in «Knights of the Ku Klux Klan». According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Klan salute dates to 1915.^[110]

In popular culture[edit]

• In a running gag in Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink often forgets to give the Hitler salute at the end of a phone call; instead, he usually asks, «What’s that?» and then says, «Yes, of course, Heil Hitler».^[111] In the German-language version of the show, called Ein Käfig voller Helden (A Cage Full of Heroes), Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz have rural Gomer Pyle-type accents, and stiff-armed salutes are accompanied by such witticisms as: «this is how high the cornflowers grow».^[112] The «Heil Hitler» greeting was the variant most often used and associated with the series; «Sieg Heil» was rarely heard.
• A related gesture was used by the fictional Nazi-affiliated organization Hydra from Marvel Comics, with both arms outstretched, clenched fists and the phrase «Hail Hydra» uttered by members of the organization.^[113]
• On the American animated TV sitcom Family Guy, a «Cheesie Charlie’s» worker dressed up as a devil welcomed both Peter and Chris to the «dungeon», who performs the Nazi salute shortly after welcoming the two characters (Season 1, Episode 3, «Chitty Chitty Death Bang», first broadcast: April 18, 1999). In another episode, a previously-appearing unnamed character, Quahog’s town librarian, is drafted by a committee of townspeople to run for mayor. None of them knows her name, and she introduces herself as «Elle Hitler» («no relation,» she says), and they all stand, extend their arms to salute her with their drinks, and say «Hi, Elle Hitler!» (Season 19, Episode 7, «Wild Wild West», first broadcast: November 22, 2020).

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Informational notes

Citations

Bibliography

• Allert, Tilman (2009). The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture. Translated by Jefferson Chase. Picador. ISBN 9780312428303.
• Kershaw, Ian (1999). Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04671-0.
• Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler, 1936–45: Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393049947.
• Kershaw, Ian (2001). The «Hitler Myth»: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (2, reissue ed.). London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802064.
• Winkler, Martin M. (2009). The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 9780814208649.

External links[edit]

• Media related to Nazi salutes at Wikimedia Commons

The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute (German: Hitlergruß, lit. ‘Hitler greeting’, IPA: [ˈhɪtlɐˌɡʁuːs] (listen);^[1] also called by the Nazi Party deutscher Gruß, ‘German greeting’, IPA: [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈɡʁuːs] (listen)),^[2] 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. Usually, the person offering the salute would say «Heil Hitler!» (lit. ‘Hail Hitler!’, IPA: [ˌhaɪl ˈhɪtlɐ] (listen)),^[3] «Heil, mein Führer!» (‘Hail, my leader!’), or «Sieg Heil!» (‘Hail victory!’). It was adopted in the 1930s by the Nazi Party to signal obedience to the party’s leader, Adolf Hitler, and to glorify the German nation (and later the German war effort). The salute was mandatory for civilians^[4] but mostly optional for military personnel, who retained a traditional military salute until the failed assassination attempt on Hitler^[5] on 20 July 1944.

Use of this salute is illegal in modern-day Germany (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a) and Austria (Verbotsgesetz 1947), and is also considered a criminal offence in modern-day Poland^[6] and Slovakia.^[6] The use of any Nazi phrases associated with the salute is also forbidden.^[7] In Italy, it is a criminal offence only if used with the intent to «reinstate the defunct National Fascist Party», or to exalt or promote its ideology or members.^[8] In Canada and most of Europe (including the Czech Republic,^[9] France, the Netherlands, Sweden,^[6] Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Russia), displaying the salute is not in itself a criminal offence, but constitutes hate speech if used for propagating the Nazi ideology.^[10][11][6]

Description[edit]

The salute was executed by extending the right arm stiff to an upward 45° angle and then straightening the hand so that it is parallel to the arm.^[12] Usually, an utterance of «Sieg Heil«, «Heil Hitler!«, or «Heil!» accompanied the gesture.
If one saw an acquaintance at a distance, it was enough to simply raise the right hand.^[12] If one encountered a superior, one would also say «Heil Hitler«.^[12] If physical disability prevented raising the right arm, it was acceptable to raise the left.^[13]

Hitler gave the salute in two ways. When reviewing his troops or crowds, he generally used the traditional stiff-armed salute. When greeting individuals who saluted, he used a modified version of the salute, bending his right arm at a 90° angle with the elbow facing forward while holding an open hand with the bottom of the palm facing towards those greeted at shoulder height and the face of the palm parallel with the sky. It was also adopted by those with rank who would themselves be saluted.^[14]

Origins and adoption[edit]

The spoken greeting «Heil» became popular in the pan-German movement around 1900.^[15] It was used by the followers of Georg Ritter von Schönerer, head of the Austrian Alldeutsche Partei («Pan-German Party») who considered himself leader of the Austrian Germans, and who was described by Carl E. Schorske as «The strongest and most thoroughly consistent anti-Semite that Austria produced» before the coming of Hitler. Hitler took both the «Heil» greeting – which was popularly used in his «hometown» of Linz when he was a boy^[16] – and the title of «Führer» for the head of the Nazi Party from Schönerer,^[15][17] whom he admired.^[18]

The extended arm saluting gesture is widely, and erroneously, believed to be based on an ancient Roman custom, but no known Roman work of art depicts it, nor does any extant Roman text describe it.^[19] Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting.^[20][21][22] The gesture and its identification with ancient Rome was advanced in other French neoclassic art.^[23]

In 1892, Francis Bellamy introduced the American Pledge of Allegiance, which was to be accompanied by a visually similar saluting gesture, referred to as the Bellamy salute.^{[24][notes 1]} A raised arm gesture was then used in the 1899 American stage production of Ben-Hur,^[25] and its 1907 film adaptation.^[26] The gesture was further elaborated upon in several early Italian films.^[27] Of special note was the 1914 silent film Cabiria, whose screenplay had contributions from the Italian ultra-nationalist Gabriele d’Annunzio,^[28] arguably a forerunner of Italian Fascism.^[29] In 1919, when he led the occupation of Fiume, d’Annunzio used the style of salute depicted in the film as a neo-Imperialist ritual and the Italian Fascist Party quickly adopted it.^[30]

By autumn 1923, 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 crooked back at the elbow, palm opened upwards, in a gesture of acceptance.^[31] In 1926, the Nazi salute was made compulsory for all party members.^[32] It functioned as a display of commitment to the Party and a declaration of principle to the outside world.^[33] Gregor Strasser wrote in 1927 that the greeting in and of itself was a pledge of loyalty to Hitler, as well as a symbol of personal dependence on the Führer.^[34] Even so, the drive to gain acceptance did not go unchallenged.^[33]

Some party members questioned the legitimacy of the so-called Roman salute, employed by Fascist Italy, as un-Germanic.^[33] In response, efforts were made to establish its pedigree by inventing a tradition after the fact.^[33] In June 1928, Rudolf Hess published an article titled «The Fascist Greeting», which claimed that the gesture was used in Germany as early as 1921, before the Nazis had heard about the Italian Fascists.^[35] He admits in the article: «The NSDAP’s introduction of the raised-arm greeting approximately two years ago still gets some people’s blood boiling. Its opponents suspect the greeting of being un-Germanic. They accuse it of merely aping the [Italian] Fascists»,^[36] but goes on to ask, «and even if the decree from two years ago [Hess’ order that all party members use it] is seen as an adaption of the Fascist gesture, is that really so terrible»?^[36] Ian Kershaw points out that Hess did not deny the likely influence from Fascist Italy, even if indeed the salute had been used sporadically in 1921 as Hess claimed.^[37]

On the night of 3 January 1942, Hitler said of the origins of the salute:^[38]

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 Worms, in the course of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. It was to show him that he was not being confronted with arms, but with peaceful intentions. In the days of Frederick the Great, people still saluted with their hats, with pompous gestures. In the Middle Ages the serfs humbly doffed their bonnets, whilst the noblemen gave the German salute. It was in the Ratskeller at Bremen, about the year 1921, that I first saw this style of salute. It must be regarded as a survival of an ancient custom, which originally signified: «See, I have no weapon in my hand!» I introduced the salute into the Party at our first meeting in Weimar. The SS at once gave it a soldierly style. It’s from that moment that our opponents honored us with the epithet «dogs of Fascists».

Nazi chants[edit]

Nazi chants like «Heil Hitler!» and «Sieg Heil!» were prevalent across Nazi Germany, sprouting in mass rallies and even regular greetings alike.

In Nazi Germany, the Nazi chants «Heil Hitler!» and «Sieg Heil!» were the formulas used by the regime: when meeting someone it was customary to greet with the words «Heil Hitler!», while «Sieg Heil!» was a verbal salute used at mass rallies. Specifically to the cry of an officer of the word Sieg (‘victory’), the crowd responded with Heil (‘hail’).^[39] For example, at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Rudolf Hess ended his climactic speech with the words «The Party is Hitler. But Hitler is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler. Hitler! Sieg Heil!»^[40] At his total war speech delivered in 1943, audiences shouted «Sieg Heil!», as Joseph Goebbels solicited from them «a kind of plebiscitary ‘Ja‘» to total war^[41] (ja meaning ‘yes’ in German).

On 11 March 1945, less than two months before the capitulation of Nazi Germany, a memorial for the dead of the war was held in Marktschellenberg, a small town near Hitler’s Berghof residence.^[42] The British historian Ian Kershaw remarks that the power of the Führer cult and the «Hitler Myth» had vanished, which is evident from this report:

When the leader of the Wehrmacht unit at the end of his speech called for a Sieg Heil for the Führer, it was returned neither by the Wehrmacht present, nor by the Volkssturm, nor by the spectators of the civilian population who had turned up. This silence of the masses … probably reflects better than anything else, the attitudes of the population.^[42]

The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a group of middle-class teenagers who consciously separated themselves from Nazism and its culture, greeting each other with «Swing-Heil!» and addressing one another as «old-hot-boy».^[43] This playful behaviour was dangerous for participants in the subculture; on 2 January 1942, Heinrich Himmler ordered that the leaders be put in concentration camps to be drilled and beaten.^[43]

The form «Heil, mein Führer!» (‘Hail, my Leader!’) was for direct address to Hitler,^[44] while «Sieg Heil» was repeated as a chant on public occasions.^[44] Written communications would be concluded with either «mit deutschem Gruß» («with German regards»), or with «Heil Hitler».^[45] In correspondence with high-ranking Nazi officials, letters were usually signed with «Heil Hitler».^[46]

From 1933 to 1945[edit]

Under a decree issued by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on 13 July 1933 (one day before the ban on all non-Nazi parties), all German public employees were required to use the salute.^[4] The decree also required the salute during the singing of the national anthem and the «Horst-Wessel-Lied».^[4] It stipulated that «anyone not wishing to come under suspicion of behaving in a consciously negative fashion will therefore render the Hitler Greeting,»^[4] and its use quickly spread as people attempted to avoid being labelled as a dissident.^[47] A rider to the decree, added two weeks later, stipulated that if physical disability prevented raising of the right arm, «then it is correct to carry out the Greeting with the left arm.»^[13] On 27 September, prison inmates were forbidden to use the salute,^[48] as were Jews by 1937.^[49]

By the end of 1934, special courts were established to punish those who refused to salute.^[50] Offenders, such as Protestant preacher Paul Schneider, faced the possibility of being sent to a concentration camp.^[50] Foreigners were not exempt from intimidation if they refused to salute. For example, the Portuguese Consul General was beaten by members of the Sturmabteilung for remaining seated in a car and not saluting a procession in Hamburg.^[51] Reactions to inappropriate use were not merely violent but sometimes bizarre.^[52] For example, a memo dated 23 July 1934 sent to local police stations stated: «There have been reports of traveling vaudeville performers training their monkeys to give the German Greeting. … see to it that said animals are destroyed.»^[52]

The salute soon became part of everyday life, a historically unique phenomenon that politicised all communication in Germany for twelve years, superseding all prior forms of greeting, such as «Grüß Gott» («Hello»), «Guten Tag» («Good day»), and «Auf Wiederseh(e)n» («Goodbye»).^[53] Postmen used the greeting when they knocked on people’s doors to deliver packages or letters.^[53] Small metal signs that reminded people to use the Hitler salute were displayed in public squares and on telephone poles and street lights throughout Germany.^[54] Department store clerks greeted customers with «Heil Hitler, how may I help you?»^[53] Dinner guests brought glasses etched with the words «Heil Hitler» as house gifts.^[53] The salute was required of all persons passing the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, site of the climax of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which the government had made into a shrine to the Nazi dead; so many pedestrians avoided this mandate by detouring through the small Viscardigasse behind that the passage acquired the nickname «Dodgers’ Alley» (Drückebergergasse).^[55] The daughter of the American Ambassador to Germany, Martha Dodd, describes the first time she saw the salute:

The first time I met von Ribbentrop was at a luncheon we gave at the Embassy. He was tall and slender, with a vague blond handsomeness. Outstanding among all the guests, Ribbentrop arrived in Nazi uniform. Most Nazis came to diplomatic functions in ordinary suits unless the affair was extremely formal. His manner of shaking hands was an elaborate ceremony in itself. He held out his hand, then retreated and held your hand at arm’s length, lowered his arm stiffly by his side, then raised the arm swiftly in a Nazi salute, just barely missing your nose. All the time he was staring at you with such intensity you were wondering what new sort of mesmerism he thought he was effecting. The whole ritual was performed with such self-conscious dignity and in such silence that hardly a word was whispered while Ribbentrop made his exhibitionistic acquaintance with the guests present. To me the procedure was so ridiculous I could scarcely keep a straight face.^[56]

Children were indoctrinated at an early age.^[57] Kindergarten children were taught to raise their hand to the proper height by hanging their lunch bags across the raised arm of their teacher.^[57] At the beginning of first grade primers was a lesson on how to use the greeting.^[57] The greeting found its way into fairy tales, including classics like Sleeping Beauty.^[57] Students and teachers would salute each other at the beginning and end of the school day, between classes, or whenever an adult entered the classroom.^[58]

In 1935, at the end of Hans Spemann’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, he gave a Nazi salute.^[59]

Some athletes used the Nazi salute in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as they passed by Hitler in the reviewing stand.^[60] This was done by delegates from Afghanistan, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Bolivia, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy and Turkey.^[60] The Bulgarian athletes performed the Nazi salute and broke into a goose-step;^[60] Turkish athletes maintained the salute all around the track.^[61] There is some confusion over the use of the salute, since the stiff-arm Nazi salute could have been mistaken for an Olympic salute, with the right arm held out at a slight angle to the right from the shoulder.^[60] According to the American sports writer Jeremy Schaap, only half of the athletes from Austria performed a Nazi salute, while the other half gave an Olympic salute. According to the historian Richard Mandell, there are conflicting reports on whether athletes from France performed a Nazi salute or an Olympic Salute.^[61] In football, the England football team bowed to pressure from the British Foreign Office and performed the salute during a friendly match on 14 May 1938.^[62]

Jehovah’s Witnesses came into conflict with the Nazi regime because they refused to salute Adolf Hitler with the Nazi salute, believing that it conflicted with their worship of God. Because refusing to salute Hitler was considered a crime, Jehovah’s Witnesses were arrested, and their children attending school were expelled, detained and separated from their families.^[63]

Military use[edit]

The Wehrmacht refused to adopt the Hitler salute officially and was able for a time to maintain its customs.^[64] A compromise edict from the Reich Defense Ministry, issued on 19 September 1933, required the Hitler salute of soldiers and uniformed civil servants while singing the «Horst-Wessel-Lied» and national anthem, and in non-military encounters both within and outside the Wehrmacht (for example, when greeting members of the civilian government). At all other times they were permitted to use their traditional salutes.^[64] However, according to (pre-Nazi) Reichswehr and Wehrmacht protocol, the traditional military salute was prohibited when the saluting soldier was not wearing a uniform headgear (helmet or cap). Because of this, all bareheaded salutes used the Nazi salute, making it de facto mandatory in most situations.^[65]

Full adoption of the Hitler salute by the military was discussed in January 1944 at a conference regarding traditions in the military at Hitler’s headquarters. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Armed Forces, had expressed a desire to standardize the salute across all organizations in Germany.^[66] On 23 July 1944, several days after the failed assassination attempt, Goebbels suggested to Hitler that the military be ordered to fully adopt the Hitler salute as a show of loyalty, since Army officers had been responsible for the assassination attempt.^[67][68] Hitler approved the suggestion without emotion, and the order went into effect on 24 July 1944.^[67][68]

On the night of 3 January 1942, Hitler stated the following about the compromise edict of 1933:^[38]

I imposed the German salute for the following reason. I’d given orders, at the beginning, that in the Army I should not be greeted with the German salute. But many people forgot. Fritsch drew his conclusions, and punished all who forgot to give me the military salute, with fourteen days’ confinement to barracks. I, in turn, drew my conclusions and introduced the German salute likewise into the Army.

Satiric responses[edit]

Despite indoctrination and punishment, the salute was ridiculed by some people. Since heil is also the imperative of the German verb heilen (‘to heal’), a common joke in Nazi Germany was to reply with, «Is he sick?» «Am I a doctor?» or «You heal him!»^[69] Jokes were also made by distorting the phrase. For example, «Heil Hitler» might become «Ein Liter» (‘One liter’)^[69] or «Drei Liter» (‘Three Liter’).^[70]
Cabaret performer Karl Valentin would quip, «It’s lucky that Hitler’s name wasn’t ‘Kräuter’. Otherwise, we’d have to go around yelling Heilkräuter (‘medicinal herbs’)».^[69] Similar puns were made involving «-bronn» (rendering «Heilbronn», the name of a German city), and «-butt» (rendering «Heilbutt», the German word for ‘halibut’).

Satirical use of the salute dates back to anti-Nazi propaganda in Germany before 1933. In 1932, photomontage artist John Heartfield used Hitler’s modified version, with the hand bent over the shoulder, in a poster that linked Hitler to Big Business. A giant figure representing right-wing capitalists stands behind Hitler, placing money in his hand, suggesting «backhand» donations. The caption is, «the meaning of the Hitler salute» and «Millions stand behind me».^[71] Heartfield was forced to flee in 1933 after the Nazi seizure of power in Germany.

Another example is a cartoon by New Zealand political cartoonist David Low, mocking the Night of the Long Knives. Run in the Evening Standard on 3 July 1934, it shows Hitler with a smoking gun grimacing at terrified SA men with their hands up. The caption reads: «They salute with both hands now».^[72] When Achille Starace proposed that Italians should write Evviva Il Duce in letters, Mussolini wrote an editorial in Il Popolo d’Italia mocking the idea.^[73]

Post-1945[edit]

Today in Germany, Nazi salutes in written form, vocally, and even straight-extending the right arm as a saluting gesture (with or without the phrase), are illegal.^[74][75] The offence is punishable by up to three years in prison (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a).^[75][76] Usage for art, teaching and science is allowed unless «the existence of an insult results from the form of the utterance or the circumstances under which it occurred.»^[76] Use of the salute, or any phrases associated with the salute, has also been illegal in Austria since the end of World War II.

In Germany, usage that is «ironic and clearly critical of the Hitler Greeting» is exempt, which has led to legal debates as to what constitutes ironic use.^[77] One case involved Prince Ernst August of Hanover who was brought to court after using the gesture as a commentary on the behavior of an unduly zealous airport baggage inspector.^[77] On 23 November 2007, the Amtsgericht Cottbus sentenced Horst Mahler to six months of imprisonment without parole for having, according to his own claims, ironically performed the Hitler salute when reporting to prison for a nine-month term a year earlier.^[78] The following month, a pensioner named Roland T was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog Adolf to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command «Heil Hitler!» was uttered.^[79]

The Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled in 2014 that Nazi salutes do not breach hate crime laws if expressed as one’s personal opinion, but only if they are used in attempt to propagate Nazi ideology.^[10][11]

Modified versions of the salute are sometimes used by neo-Nazis. One such version is the so-called «Kühnen salute» with extended thumb, index and middle finger, which is also a criminal offence in Germany.^[80] In written correspondence, the number 88 is sometimes used by some neo-Nazis as a substitute for «Heil Hitler» («H» as the eighth letter of the alphabet).^[81] Swiss neo-Nazis were reported to use a variant of the Kühnengruss, though extending one’s right arm over their head and extending said three fingers has a different historical source for Switzerland, as the first three Eidgenossen or confederates are often depicted with this motion. Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon often raise their arms in a Nazi-style salute.^[82][83]

The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a South African neo-Nazi organization known for its militant advocacy of white separatism,^[84][85] has espoused brown uniforms as well as Nazi German-esque flags, insignia, and salutes at meetings and public rallies.^[86] Hundreds of supporters in 2010 delivered straight-arm salutes outside the funeral for AWB leader Eugène Terre’Blanche, who was murdered by two black farm workers over an alleged wage dispute.^[87][88]

On 28 May 2012, BBC current affairs programme Panorama examined the issues of racism, antisemitism and football hooliganism, which it claimed were prevalent among Polish and Ukrainian football supporters. The two countries hosted the international football competition UEFA Euro 2012.^[89]

On 16 March 2013, Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis of AEK Athens F.C. was handed a life ban from the Greek national team for performing the salute after scoring a goal against Veria F.C. in Athens’ Olympic Stadium.^[90]

On 18 July 2015, The Sun published an image of the British Royal Family from private film shot in 1933 or 1934, showing Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen, then a young girl) and the Queen Mother both performing a Nazi salute, accompanied by Edward VIII, taken from 17 seconds of home footage (also released by The Sun).^[91] The footage ignited controversy in the UK,^[92] and there have been questions as to whether the release of this footage was appropriate.^[93] Buckingham Palace described the release of this footage as «disappointing»,^[94] and considered pursuing legal action against The Sun,^[95] whereas Stig Abell (managing director of The Sun) said that the footage was «a matter of national historical significance to explore what was going on in the [1930s] ahead of the Second World War». Abell responded to criticism by assuring that The Sun was not suggesting «anything improper on the part of the Queen or indeed the Queen Mum».^[96]

American white supremacist Richard B. Spencer drew considerable media attention in the weeks following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, where, at a National Policy Institute conference, he quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews.^[97] In response to his cry «Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!», a number of his supporters gave the Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the Sieg Heil chant.^[98][99]

CNN fired political commentator Jeffrey Lord on 10 August 2017, after he tweeted «Sieg Heil!» to Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, suggesting Carusone was a fascist.^{[100][101][102]}

In August 2021, a Michigan man named Paul Marcum gave the Nazi salute during a dispute over mask mandates and was fired from his job as a tennis instructor after Birmingham Public Schools announced that it would not tolerate any acts of racism, disrespect, violence, or inequitable treatment of any person.^[103]

Incidents involving North American students[edit]

In May 2018, students at Baraboo High School, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, appeared to perform a Nazi salute in a photograph taken before their junior prom. The image went viral on social media six months later, sparking outrage. The school decided the students could not be punished because of their First Amendment rights.^[104][105]

In November 2018, a group of students of Pacifica High School of Garden Grove Unified School District in California were shown in a video giving the Nazi salute and singing Erika. The incident took place at an after-hours off-campus student athletics banquet. The school administration did not learn about the incident until March 2019, at which time the students were disciplined. The school did not release details of what the discipline entailed, but released a statement saying that they would continue to deal with the incident «in collaboration with agencies dedicated to anti-bias education.»^[106] On 20 August 2019, the school district announced that it was reopening the investigation into the incident because new photographs and another video has surfaced of the event, along with «new allegations» and «new claims». Parents and teachers criticized the school’s administration for their initial secrecy about the incident, for which the school’s principal apologized.^[107]

In March 2019, students from Newport Beach, California, attending a private party made a swastika from red-and-white plastic party cups and gave Nazi salutes over it. Some of the students may have been from Newport Harbor High School of Newport-Mesa Unified School District, a very large district which encompasses 58 square miles and includes the cities of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. Officials from the district condemned the students’ behavior, and said they were working with law enforcement to collect information on the incident.^[108]

On February 1, 2022, one of the pupils from Charles H. Best Middle School in North York, a district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, performed a Nazi salute to a Jewish student while another who allegedly built a swastika, which led to the Toronto District School Board to launch an investigation and further condemnation by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.^[109]

Ku Klux Klan[edit]

Among other gestures used by the Ku Klux Klan, the «Klan salute» is similar to the Nazi salute, the difference being that it is performed using the left arm and not the right, and that often the fingers of the hand are splayed and not held tightly together. The four fingers represent the four Ks in «Knights of the Ku Klux Klan». According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Klan salute dates to 1915.^[110]

In popular culture[edit]

• In a running gag in Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink often forgets to give the Hitler salute at the end of a phone call; instead, he usually asks, «What’s that?» and then says, «Yes, of course, Heil Hitler».^[111] In the German-language version of the show, called Ein Käfig voller Helden (A Cage Full of Heroes), Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz have rural Gomer Pyle-type accents, and stiff-armed salutes are accompanied by such witticisms as: «this is how high the cornflowers grow».^[112] The «Heil Hitler» greeting was the variant most often used and associated with the series; «Sieg Heil» was rarely heard.
• A related gesture was used by the fictional Nazi-affiliated organization Hydra from Marvel Comics, with both arms outstretched, clenched fists and the phrase «Hail Hydra» uttered by members of the organization.^[113]
• On the American animated TV sitcom Family Guy, a «Cheesie Charlie’s» worker dressed up as a devil welcomed both Peter and Chris to the «dungeon», who performs the Nazi salute shortly after welcoming the two characters (Season 1, Episode 3, «Chitty Chitty Death Bang», first broadcast: April 18, 1999). In another episode, a previously-appearing unnamed character, Quahog’s town librarian, is drafted by a committee of townspeople to run for mayor. None of them knows her name, and she introduces herself as «Elle Hitler» («no relation,» she says), and they all stand, extend their arms to salute her with their drinks, and say «Hi, Elle Hitler!» (Season 19, Episode 7, «Wild Wild West», first broadcast: November 22, 2020).

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Informational notes

Citations

Bibliography

• Allert, Tilman (2009). The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture. Translated by Jefferson Chase. Picador. ISBN 9780312428303.
• Kershaw, Ian (1999). Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04671-0.
• Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler, 1936–45: Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393049947.
• Kershaw, Ian (2001). The «Hitler Myth»: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (2, reissue ed.). London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802064.
• Winkler, Martin M. (2009). The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 9780814208649.

External links[edit]

• Media related to Nazi salutes at Wikimedia Commons

Нацистское приветствие, Гитлеровское приветствие, Немецкое приветствие (нем. Deutscher Gruß, Hitlergruß) в Третьем рейхе состояло из поднятия правой руки под углом примерно в 45 градусов с распрямлённой ладонью (среди больших чинов — полусогнутой, рядовых или перед старшими по званию — полностью выпрямленной) и восклицания нем. Heil Hitler! — «да здравствует Гитлер, слава Гитлеру» (обычно передаётся по-русски как Хайль Гитлер) или просто нем. Heil!. При приветствии, обращённом к самому фюреру, он обычно в третьем лице не назывался, а говорилось Heil! или Heil, mein Führer!. Являлось частью культа личности Гитлера. Было принято в государственных учреждениях, НСДАП, СС, но широко использовалось и неофициально.

Фраза Heil Hitler! широко употреблялась и в письменном виде, обычно в конце писем (в том числе частных), объявлений, приказов.

История

Нацистское приветствие часто путают с римским салютом, поскольку оно было заимствовано нацистами из Италии, где использовалось как приветствие фашистов и называлось римским салютом. Однако при римском салюте рука идёт к приветственному жесту от сердца, в то время как в нацистском приветствии она идёт сразу от земли. В фашистском приветствии соединялись исторический древнеримский салют и торжественный жест христиан, восходящий к ветхозаветным временам (Быт. 14:22).

Согласно нацистским идеологам, поднятие руки и восклицание Heil! было принято у древних германцев при избрании королей; жест трактовался как приветствие поднятым копьём. Как официальное название часто использовался термин «Немецкое приветствие». В Древнем Риме аналогичный жест изначально использовался клиентами в качестве приветствия и пожелания здоровья своему патрону (существует версия, что исходно этим жестом указывали на холм, на котором располагался храм бога здоровья), позже, когда император сделался «патроном всех римлян» — для приветствия императора.

23 июля 1944 года, через три дня после попытки переворота, в которой участвовало много военных, нацистское приветствие стало обязательным в вермахте. До этого оно было факультативным, и большинство военных использовали стандарное отдание чести, употребляя гитлеровское приветствие только в ответ на такое же обращение со стороны чинов партии или СС.

Зиг хайль!

Зиг хайль! (нем. Sieg Heil! (произносится: зик хайль) — «Да здравствует победа!») — другой распространённый лозунг, выкрикиваемый одновременно с римским салютом (особенно на массовых собраниях). В качестве официального приветствия был не употребителен. Адольф Гитлер и другие вожди партии чаще всего повторяли эти слова в конце своих речей троекратно: «Зиг… хайль! Зиг… хайль! Зиг… хайль!» — что явствует из «Триумфа воли» и других документальных источников.

Лозунг был придуман Рудольфом Гессом: на одном из съездов НСДАП в Нюрнберге после речи Гитлера он начал его выкрикивать; лозунг был сразу подхвачен многотысячной толпой, слушавшей фюрера.

Запрет

После войны в некоторых странах римский салют и восклицание Heil Hitler как и Sieg Heil! были законодательно запрещены. В Германии, согласно § 86а действующего Уголовного кодекса, использование данного приветствия наказуемо, в Австрии действует аналогичный закон. Нацистское приветствие употребляется неонацистами в историческом или видоизменённом облике; как замена для Heil Hitler многими ультраправыми используется число 88.

В современной немецкой армии, несмотря на запрет, встречаются случаи использования приветствия (в частности, неонацистами). Только документированных нарушений закона — порядка 100 в год.^[1]

Ссылки

«Зиг хайль!» (рус.). Энциклопедия Третьего рейха. — словарная заметка, в которой упоминается происхождение лозунга. Проверено 17 марта 2009.

Русский[править]

Тип и синтаксические свойства сочетания[править]

зиг хайль

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Произношение[править]

• МФА: [zʲik xaɪ̯lʲ]

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1. истор. в Третьем рейхе — лозунг, выкрикиваемый одновременно с нацистским приветствием (чаще всего на массовых собраниях) ◆ Где-то, под нашей ложей, появился Гитлер. Он медленно, ни на кого не глядя, движется по проходу к сцене. Правая рука поднята в фашистском приветствии, левая лежит на ремне гимнастерки. Он как бы не слышит буйства в зале, выкриков «зиг хайль!», «хайль Гитлер!», «хайль фюрер!»… В. М. Бережков, «Рядом со Сталиным», 1971–1998 гг. [НКРЯ] ◆ Вот и отдельным бывшим советским людям, ныне гражданам свободой России, наследникам Победы, внукам и правнукам убитых, раненых и умерших с голоду на той войне, почему-то не впадлу надевать свастики и делать «зиг хайль». Д. В. Драгунский, «Помёт валькирий» // «Частный корреспондент», 2011 г. [НКРЯ]

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Гиперонимы[править]

1. нацистское приветствие, лозунг

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Этимология[править]

От нем. Sieg Heil! «Да здравствует победа!» или «Победе слава!».

Перевод[править]

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Библиография[править]

Sieg Heil! (нем. Sieg Heil — да здравствует победа, слава победе) — широко известный лозунг немецких национал-социалистов, также употребляемый некоторыми из современных национал-социалистов.

История лозунга[править | править код]

Впервые лозунг был провозглашён Йозефом Гёббельсом на одном из партийных собраний и сразу же был подхвачен присутствующими.

Лозунг обычно многократно скандировали на митингах, причём ведущий кричал: «Sieg» (с растягиванием гласной), а собравшиеся хором продолжали: «Heil!»

Многократное повторение одинаковых вопросов и ответов объединяло психические состояния участников митинга, создавало эффект единства толпы.

Достаточно быстро сложилась традиция «троекратного Зиг Хайль» — тройного повторения лозунга.

Этот девиз был выбит на партийном значке NSDAP, выпущенном в 1933 году.

Внутренняя структура лозунга[править | править код]

Двусложный лозунг, задействующий две важнейших немецких мифологемы: Sieg (победа, выигрыш, удача) и Heil (благо, удача; это слово также функционирует в качестве приветствия). Их соединение воспринимается германским расовым сознанием как «две шестёрки» — полная и абсолютная удача.

Современное положение[править | править код]

Запрет на использование лозунга в политических целях[править | править код]

В современных Австрии и Германии произнесение этой фразы и похожих на неё — преступление. В Германии оно предусмотрено разделом 86a германского Уложения о наказаниях и карается тюремным заключением на срок до трёх лет, если только лозунг не используется для целей искусства, науки или образования.

Sieg Heil в искусстве и массовой культуре[править | править код]

Благодаря военной антифашистской пропаганде и послевоенной медиа-индустрии, эксплуатирующей тему фашизма, лозунг стал известен широким массам.

При этом подавляющее большинство потребителей не знают значения этих слов^[1] и воспринимают «Sieg Heil» в качестве абстрактного «символа нацизма» и правого политического активизма вообще.

Примечания[править код]

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Нацистское приветствие, гитлеровское приветствие, немецкое приветствие, партийное приветствие (нем. Deutscher Gruß, Hitlergruß) в Третьем рейхе состояло из поднятия правой руки под углом примерно в 45 градусов с распрямлённой ладонью (среди больших чинов — полусогнутой, рядовых или перед старшими по званию — полностью выпрямленной) и восклицания нем. Heil Hitler! — «да здравствует Гитлер!», «слава Гитлеру!» (обычно передаётся по-русски как Хайль Гитлер) или просто нем. Heil!. При приветствии, обращённом к самому фюреру, он обычно в третьем лице не назывался, а говорилось Heil! или Heil, mein Führer!. Являлось частью культа личности Гитлера. Было принято в государственных учреждениях, НСДАП, СС, но широко использовалось и неофициально.

Фраза Heil Hitler! широко употреблялась и в письменном виде, обычно в конце писем (в том числе частных), объявлений, приказов.

[править] История

Нацистское приветствие часто путают с так называемым «римским салютом» — приветственным жестом итальянских фашистов, позже заимствованным национал-социалистами^[1]. Однако при римском салюте рука идёт к приветственному жесту от сердца, в то время как в нацистском приветствии она идёт сразу от земли^[2][3][4] .

Согласно нацистским идеологам, поднятие руки и восклицание Heil! было принято у древних германцев при избрании королей; жест трактовался как приветствие поднятым копьём. Как официальное название часто использовался термин «немецкое приветствие». В Древнем Риме аналогичный жест изначально использовался клиентами в качестве приветствия и пожелания здоровья своему патрону, позже, когда император сделался «патроном всех римлян» — для приветствия императора.

23 июля 1944 года, через три дня после попытки переворота, в которой участвовало много военных, нацистское приветствие стало обязательным в вермахте. До этого оно было факультативным, и большинство военных использовали стандартное воинское приветствие, употребляя гитлеровское приветствие только в ответ на такое же обращение со стороны чинов партии или СС.

[править] Зиг хайль!

Зиг хайль! (нем. Sieg Heil! — «Да здравствует Победа!» или «Слава Победе!») — другой распространённый лозунг, выкрикиваемый одновременно с нацистским приветствием (особенно на массовых собраниях). В качестве официального приветствия не употреблялся. Адольф Гитлер и другие вожди партии чаще всего повторяли эти слова в конце своих речей троекратно: «Зиг… хайль! Зиг… хайль! Зиг… хайль!» — что явствует из «Триумфа воли» и других документальных источников.

Лозунг был придуман Рудольфом Гессом: на одном из съездов НСДАП в Нюрнберге после речи Гитлера он начал его выкрикивать; лозунг был сразу подхвачен многотысячной толпой, слушавшей фюрера.

[править] Преследования за отказ произносить нацистское приветствие

Нацисты требовали от жителей Германии произносить нацистское приветствие. Но, по мнению cвидетелей Иеговы, произносить выражение «Heil Hitler!» означало бы выражать упование на то, что спасение придёт от Гитлера, что прямо противоречит основному положению веры свидетелей Иеговы в то, что единственным Спасителем, посланным Иеговой Богом, является Иисус Христос (Луки 24:8; 1 Иоанна 4:14)^[5].

Поэтому свидетели Иеговы отказывались произносить нацистское приветствие^[6][7][8]. Вместо этого говорили «Доброе утро!» (нем. Guten Morgen!) либо «Добрый день!» (нем. Guten Tag!). Как сообщал шведский журналист и диктор Би-би-си Бьёрн Халльстрём, когда в Германии при нацистском режиме арестовывали свидетелей Иеговы, их среди прочего обвиняли в том, что они «отказываются отдавать честь флагу и произносить нацистское приветствие»^[5].

[править] Запрет

После войны в некоторых странах нацистское приветствие и восклицания Heil Hitler! и Sieg Heil! были законодательно запрещены. В Германии, согласно § 86а действующего Уголовного кодекса, использование данного приветствия наказуемо; в Австрии действует аналогичный закон. Нацистское приветствие употребляется неонацистами в историческом или видоизменённом облике; как замена для Heil Hitler многими ультраправыми используется буквосочитание hh или число 88.

В современной немецкой армии, несмотря на запрет, встречаются случаи использования приветствия (в частности, неонацистами). Только документированных нарушений закона — порядка 50 в год^[9].

[править] См. также

• Римский салют

[править] Примечания

[править] Источники

• Kershaw Ian Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis — illustrated. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. — ISBN 0393049949, 9780393049947.
• Kershaw Ian The «Hitler myth»: image and reality in the Third Reich — 2, reissue. — Oxford University Press, 2001. — ISBN 0192802062, 9780192802064.
• Allert Tilman The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture — Picador. — Picador. — ISBN 0312428308, 9780312428303.
• Winkler Martin M. The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology — Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. — ISBN 0814208649, 9780814208649.

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зиг хайль, Зиг Хайль! — самые популярные переводы слова «Sieg Heil» на русский.
Пример переведенного предложения: The crowd, led by Mr. Sjolie, then repeatedly made the Nazi salute and shouted “Sieg Heil”. ↔ Затем молодчики, возглавляемые г-ном Шоли, несколько раз подняли руки в нацистском приветствии с криками «Зиг хайль».

Sieg Heil



Phrase

A common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, meaning roughly «Hail Victory!» [..]

• зиг хайль

  The crowd, led by Mr. Sjolie, then repeatedly made the Nazi salute and shouted “Sieg Heil”.

  Затем молодчики, возглавляемые г-ном Шоли, несколько раз подняли руки в нацистском приветствии с криками «Зиг хайль«.

• Зиг Хайль!

  The crowd, led by Mr. Sjolie, then repeatedly made the Nazi salute and shouted “Sieg Heil”.

  Затем молодчики, возглавляемые г-ном Шоли, несколько раз подняли руки в нацистском приветствии с криками «Зиг хайль«.

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Herbert wasn’t surprised that these people eschewed the Nazi salute and cries of Sieg Heil!

Херберта не удивили нацистские приветствия и крики “зиг хайль”.

All night Nazi mobs had been parading through the streets, screaming “Sieg heil!”

«Всю ночь нацистские толпы маршировали по улицам, кричали: «»Зиг хайль!»»»

The police did not need telephones to hear five thousand people chanting, Sieg Heil!

Полиция не нуждалась в телефонах, чтобы услышать протяжные песнопения пяти тысяч людей и крики «Зиг Хайль!»

The slogans included: “Sieg Heil”, “Jews, Jews”, “White Power”, etc

В числе этих лозунгов были: «Sieg Hail«, «Жиды, жиды», «Власть белым» и т.д

In the quiet evening I could almost hear the mindless din of �Sieg Heil!

В тишине вечера я почти мог слышать бессмысленный рев «Sieg Heil!».

After football games the teams marched off with a regulation “Sieg Heil!”

Футбольные команды, закончив игру, прощались со зрителями выкриками согласно предписанию: «Зиг хайль!»

When the right-wingers, who hated him with a vengeance, started chanting ‘Sieg Heil Lemke, Sieg Heil Lemke!’

Когда правые, которые особенно его ненавидели, начинали орать во время его выступлений: «Зиг хайль,[43] Лемке!

At their second Act 1 first-scene rehearsal together he began his speech with “Sieg heil, great monster!”

На их второй репетиции акта первого сцены второй он выдал в самом начале речи: «Привет, могучий властелин!

We also extend our Sieg—Heil to him!

Мы также салютуем ему своим «Зиг хайль!».

The slogans included: “Sieg Heil”, “Jews, Jews”, “White Power”, etc.

В числе этих лозунгов были: «Sieg Hail«, «Жиды, жиды», «Власть белым» и т.д.

The crowd, led by Mr. Sjolie, then repeatedly made the Nazi salute and shouted “Sieg Heil”.

Затем молодчики, возглавляемые г-ном Шоли, несколько раз подняли руки в нацистском приветствии с криками «Зиг хайль«.

The crowd, led by Mr. Sjolie, then repeatedly made the Nazi salute and shouted “Sieg Heil”

Затем молодчики, возглавляемые г-ном Шоли, несколько раз подняли руки в нацистском приветствии с криками «Зиг хайль»

Specifically, Navalny says he will not supply his enemies with footage of him standing next to “sieg—heiling schoolchildren.”

В частности, Навальный пишет, что не хочет давать своим врагам кадры, на которых он будет рядом с “зигующими школьниками”.

At the Führer’s approach the crowd’s excitement had grown to a rabid frenzy of Sieg Heil and Heil Hitler.

С приближением фюрера возбужденная толпа стала безумствовать, оглушительно выкрикивая Sieg Heil и Heil Hitler

It is scarcely possible that witnessing a crowd of almost a quarter of a million people shouting “Sieg Heil!”

Разумеется, услышав, как почти четверть миллиона людей скандирует «Sieg Heil!»

In a few weeks his hair would have grown over the Sieg Heil tattoo at the back of his head.

Через несколько недель волосы отрастут, и татуировки «Sieg Heil» на затылке не будет видно.

But when I looked at them, I didn’t see any SS-like uniforms, swastika-like symbols on the wall, Sieg Heil salutes — none of that.

Но если взглянуть на них, не увидишь формы СС, они не вешают свастики на стенах, не вскидывают руку в нацистском приветствии — ничего подобного.

On # ugust # the Public Prosecution Service reached an out-of-court settlement of # guilders with a man who raised his arm and shouted “Sieg Heil” on the public highway in Oss

августа # года органы прокуратуры, по взаимному согласию сторон, достигли урегулирования вопроса об уплате штрафа в размере # гульденов лицом, которое, находясь в общественном месте в городе Осс, вскинуло руки и выкрикнуло «Sieg Heil»

In the post, he laments that the march has not transformed, as he hoped, from a “gathering of marginal characters and sieg—heiling schoolchildren” into an “ordinary procession of conservative citizens.”

В сообщении он сетует, что марш не стал, как он надеялся, из “сборища маргинальных персонажей и зигующих школьников” “нормальным шествием консервативно настроенных граждан”.

On 11 August 1999, the Public Prosecution Service reached an out-of-court settlement of 500 guilders with a man who raised his arm and shouted “Sieg Heil” on the public highway in Oss.

11 августа 1999 года органы прокуратуры, по взаимному согласию сторон, достигли урегулирования вопроса об уплате штрафа в размере 500 гульденов лицом, которое, находясь в общественном месте в городе Осс, вскинуло руки и выкрикнуло «Sieg Heil«.

The report also included a video of Yiannopoulos singing «America the Beautiful» at a karaoke bar, where a crowd of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including Saucier and Richard B. Spencer, cheered him with the Nazi sieg heil salute.

Отчёт также включал видео Яннопулоса, поющего «America the Beautiful» в караоке-баре, где толпа неонацистов и белых шовинистов, включая Сосира и белого шовиниста Ричарда Спенсера, аплодировала ему нацистскими приветствиями «Зиг хайль!».

One officer was charged with support and promotion of movements directed at the suppression of rights and freedoms of citizens and with rioting (by shouting “Sieg Heil” at a bar and physically assaulting a person in front of the bar together with others

Одному сотруднику было предъявлено обвинение в поддержке и поощрении движений, имеющих целью подавление прав и свобод граждан, и в нарушении общественного порядка (он выкрикивал «зиг хайль«, находясь в баре, и вместе с другими лицами совершил акт физического насилия в отношении одного из посетителей бара

One officer was charged with support and promotion of movements directed at the suppression of rights and freedoms of citizens and with rioting (by shouting “Sieg Heil” at a bar and physically assaulting a person in front of the bar together with others).

Одному сотруднику было предъявлено обвинение в поддержке и поощрении движений, имеющих целью подавление прав и свобод граждан, и в нарушении общественного порядка (он выкрикивал «зиг хайль«, находясь в баре, и вместе с другими лицами совершил акт физического насилия в отношении одного из посетителей бара).

Baburova’s political activity may be traced back to her having witnessed an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreigner, after which she wrote in her diary, «It is difficult to look in the eyes of a Korean student, who has only just been stuck in the temple by two juvenile thugs… they waved ‘Sieg Heil‘ towards the tram and ran off.»

Политической деятельностью Анастасия занялась после того, как стала свидетелем нападения неонацистов на иностранца, после чего она написала в своём дневнике: «Тяжело смотреть в глаза корейскому студенту, которого только что ударили в висок два малолетних урода, на бегу выскочившие из отходящего трамвая.

The attacks were accompanied by xenophobic insults and shouting of the slogans “The Russians, forward!” and “Sieg Heil!”.

Атаки сопровождались ксенофобными оскорблениями и криками «Русские, вперед!» и «Зиг хайль!».