Something doesn't work out if it comes to the Hitlergruß in Nazi Germany.
The Hitlergruß was adopted from the Roman salute (Fascists in Italy were the first to adopt it directly from that in 1920, the NSDAP then followed in like 1926.). At the same time the NSDAP worshipped the germanics like crazy. Anyone with the slightest bit of historic knowledge will notice that this does not work out. The Germanics and the Romans were the biggest enemies in Europe. The Romans (whose salute the NSDAP did all day everyday) did try to defeat Germania and the Germanic people and conquer everything they owned and destroy their culture (and were even successful with that to some degree in the sense of the Christianization of the Pagans).
So, basically the NSDAP did a salute of the people who tried to extinguish their ancestors.
Has this ever been explained by anyone during the times of the NSDAP or afterwards?
Brody Baker
There's nothing wrong with adopting elements from the greatest empire in the history of the White race. Was it a betrayal towards the Germans that the title of Kaiser was derived from Caesar?
Andrew Perez
If you keep the germanics in mind, yes. Romans or not.. The true ancestors of Germany are the Germanics, not the Romans. I have more respect for the Germanics when they were the only ones who made it to defend their home from the attempted attacks of the Romans. (See Varusschlacht) The Romans tried to force their culture on everyone in all Europe and remove individual, isolated cultures. Does that sound familiar to you? Yea, kind of what Stalin tried to do.
Adam Edwards
Does it fucking matter at this point?
Aaron Jenkins
roman salute is the best salute meme. nazis had good taste in memes
Brandon Wilson
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Blake King
Carthaginian detected
Bentley Moore
The Prussian states which united to form Germany were the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire, which was itself the last remaining "power" which could trace its roots all the way back to Roman Empire. Germany called itself the Third Reich for a reason; they weren't just LARPing.
Camden Lewis
This smells like D&C
Samuel Sanders
sticking to tradition for the sake of tradition is pointless. Hitler was building the greatest aryan nation in the history of mankind. he used roman symbolism because rome was previously the greatest aryan nation, &the vikings.
d&c thread reported.
Chase Jenkins
Explain the importance of this and how it affects us today.
Owen Edwards
If you mean to imply that the Second and Third Reichs were disloyal towards the German People on the grounds of them paying a certain degree of homage to the greatness of ancient Rome, I would ask you to name a single leader in history who hasn't betrayed his people. If even Hitler can't be considered loyal by you, who possibly could be?
Sebastian Richardson
no because "muh Indo-Aryans"
Juan Ross
op a kike
Carson Smith
This thread is legitimately autistic. Roman and german history are intertwined.
Carter Cox
The Hitlergruß represents the sig rune. It is inherently Germanic.
Carson Jones
Not really. Germanics were a majority of the Roman military for a while.
Matthew Bennett
Germans were nothing but savages before adopting superior roman customs
Caleb Brown
this /thread
OP = red pilled on the subject.
Gavin Sanders
You might get this impression by reading (((their))) books.
Asher Wright
Lol only dumbass larpers shilling muh europa believe that this salute had anything to do with Rome and not European culture. There is no evidence supporting that Ancient Romans used this gesture in any archaeological evidence depicting triumphs, parades and state meetings (events that would probably show them doing it)
In reality it was later added by European Romanticist painters who wanted to make the Romans look kewl, so in reality it's still a wholly European symbol.
Also
Luis Jones
you can thank this nigga
Angel Young
is the op a kike?
yes, yes he is
Angel Torres
Are you retarded? What was the Second Reich?
Christopher Rogers
The Roman Salute is cultural appropriation!
William Myers
The "Roman Salute" was widely used around the world before Hitler's rise; children in the U.S. had to do the salute during the pledge of allegiance at school.
It was a sign of power, allegiance, honor, and love originating in the heart which wished to protect its' Nation and people ending in the hands which were the tools that allowed them to do so.
James Sanders
Did the Americans betray there people every time they use the word Liberty because it's a fren…kill yourself, retard.