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The bras d'honneur is known by various names in different languages, including the Iberian slap, [a] forearm jerk, Italian salute, [b] or Kozakiewicz's gesture. [ c ] [ 1 ] Use and names by country
It was soon adopted by the Italian Fascist party, [44] whose use of the salute inspired the Nazi party salute. [45] However, the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) of the Third Reich used a German form of the military salute until, in the wake of the July 20 plot on Hitler's life in 1944, the Nazi salute or Hitlergruss was imposed on them.
The Roman salute, also and more correctly known as the Fascist salute because it was actually never used in the times of ancient Rome, is a gesture in which the right arm is fully extended, facing forward, with palm down and fingers touching. In some versions, the arm is raised upward at an angle; in others, it is held out parallel to the ground.
Italian: Salute! "Health!" Grazie "Thank you" (ironic) Che se ne va "That is going away" Japanese: 大丈夫? (Daijoubu?) It is uncommon to acknowledge a sneeze in Japan, and it is customary not to say anything at all. After multiple sneezes, they use: "Are you all right?" すみません (sumimasen) or 失礼しました (shitsurei shimashita)
The nature of German fascism, as encapsulated in Nazism, was similar to Italian Fascism ideologically and borrowed symbolism from the Italian Fascists such as the use of mass rallies, the straight-armed Roman salute, and the use of pageantry. Nazism was different from Italian Fascism in that it was officially racist.
The inventor of the Bellamy salute was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion. [2] Bellamy recalled that Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said, "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag', I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the ...
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health; Venetian: Bazéłega de Santa Maria de ła Sałute), commonly known simply as La Salute (Italian: [la saˈlute]), is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at the Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
La Salute è in voi! ("Health Is in You!" or "Salvation Is Within You!") was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with the Italian-American Galleanisti, followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani. The anonymous authors advised impoverished workers to overcome their despair and commit to individual, revolutionary acts.