Members who use the arm-outstretched, flat palm, gesture, argue they are employing the "Roman salute". They also like it because it is against foreigners. But some of those who are drawn to the party's symbolism have no idea what it all means - even the salute, says Michaelides. He says that while World War II is studied by school children, some just don't seem to take it in.
But Matthew Goodwin, associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham, and a specialist in political extremism, thinks that it is inconceivable that young Europeans could be entirely ignorant of the associations of neo-Nazi symbolism. Many parties on the fringes of European politics employ elements of neo-Nazi symbolism, he says, although they present it as something else to stay on the right side of the law. In particular, those groups have managed to infiltrate sport in countries such as Germany, Austria, Italy and the UK.
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But where did the idea to regulate the way Americans choose to respect the flag come from, anyway? As it turns out, the U. Flag Code dates back to the not-too-distant year of The decision to enact began with the Pledge of Allegiance—a ritual that used to involve a salute that required you to raise your right hand, flip your palm down, point it toward the flag in a salute and recite the words.
But believe it or not, they date from the beginning of the Pledge itself. Originally known as the Bellamy Salute, the gesture came to be in the s, when the Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis J. At the time, as Jeffrey Owen Jones reported for Smithsonian magazine in , Bellamy and his boss both agreed that the Civil War had divided American loyalties and that the flag might be able to bridge those gaps. The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, or the Heil Hitler salute, was an official greeting gesture performed in Nazi Germany.
Shortly after the Nazis came to power, the salute became the official German form of greeting. It quickly spread to public events — although its use in the private sphere was limited and declined throughout the s.
By , special courts had been established to punish those who refused to perform the salute. The punishments ranged from imprisonment in concentration camps to intimidation or fines. Despite the Nazis punitive efforts, some people refused to perform the salute. This handwritten diary was used to record anti-Nazi jokes in Germany before the war. It belonged to Kitty Fehr, a year-old schoolgirl who emigrated to Britain in , bringing her diary with her. Anti-Nazi jokes were used as a way of expressing discontent with the Nazi regime in general, or with specific policies.
In a regime that demanded complete conformity and removed the freedom of the press, telling anti-Nazi jokes provided a way to criticise and resist the regime with a much smaller risk of punishment. Anti-Nazi jokes were on a variety of subjects: anti-Jewish policies were mocked, as well as economic policies and even Hitler himself.
M Dent and Sons, England, ]. Two of the jokes from the collection are used as examples below. The first implies that Hitler has lost his mind and is unfit for office. The second suggests that only lunatics or the mentally ill would perform a Heil Hitler salute. I stepped into the popular Aschinger restaurant in Berlin and ordered a Bismarck herring.
All the patients were told to stand in a row, and they were given instructions on how to salute him.
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