The Meaning of the Hitler Salute (1932) ; GREAT WORKS ++ John Heartfield Akademie der Konste, BerlinImage-magic is alive and well. The belief that what is done to an image is (in some sense) done to its subject dies hard. We may not kiss icons of saints, or deface pictures of ...
The phraseHeil Hitler, a compulsory salute in Germany under Hitler's rule, is attested in English language reports of life in 1930s Germany. H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and from the phrase is derived the code 88 orAcht und Acht, attested by 1946 as a device for showing sup...
when they were taking mobile phone pictures of each other and posing Hitler salute gestures outside the historic landmark Reichstag parliament complex in the center of Berlin.Zhou Anping,counselor of the Consulate Division of the Chinese Embassy in Germany,told Xinhua that each of the two tourists...
I salute your honesty Br. Nathanael! Not many who were born into what you were born into would EVER touch this subject – even after being called out by Christ… You are to be highly commended and all should emulate your courage. If only all of us had your cajones! ——— Russ said...
and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans...
The "Roman" salute is generally said to have been invented by Mussolini but Musso was a Marxist who knew Lenin well so it is not surprising that Stalin was influenced by Musso's ideas for a while. The posters above come via a documentary film called Soviet Story. See here for the ...
“My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is,”Meecham said. “And so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.” The video shows the dog appearing to raise its paw in a Nazi s...
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