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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. Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler!" (' Hail Hitler! '), [b] "Heil, mein ...
1936 photo, in which a man alleged to be August Landmesser is conspicuously not giving the Nazi salute. In 1937, Landmesser attempted to flee Nazi Germany to Denmark with his family but he was detained at the border and charged with "dishonoring the race," or "racial infamy," under the Nuremberg Laws. He argued that neither he nor Eckler knew ...
It also features photos of Hitler traveling in his motorcade past crowds of people cheering and saluting them. One of the images shows Hitler smiling next to a group of cheerful children.
In 1926, Hoffmann's images of the Party's rally in Weimar in Thuringia – one of the few German states in which Hitler was not banned from speaking at the time – showed the impressive march-past of 5,000 stormtroopers, saluted by Hitler for the first time with the straight-armed "Roman" or Fascist salute.
The gesture from Musk is eerily similar to the salute made prominent during the height of Adolf Hitler’s antisemitic and racist rule over Germany in the 1930s. Elon Musk, the billionaire friend ...
August 1927: Austrian born German fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler, saluting the massed ranks of his party during the party congress at Nuremberg (Getty Images)
The Anti-Defamation League came to Musk's defense, stating in an X post: "It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute." [24] However, former ADL national director Abraham Foxman described the gesture as a "Heil Hitler Nazi salute". [25]
Following widespread backlash comparing his gesture to a Roman salute—most commonly associated with the phrase "Heil Hitler"—Musk addressed his critics in a post on X, writing, "Frankly, they ...