Posted on 06/16/2008 3:42:59 PM PDT by forkinsocket
As the twig is bent, so bends the bough. For the Nazis it was important to educate little children in performing the supreme gesture of submission to Adolf Hitler's "Thousand-Year Reich."
German sociologist Tilman Allert cites a postmistress who chided two little girls, come to mail a letter, for greeting her with "guten tag." Instruction improving on correction, she led them outside to practice the "heil Hitler" along with the arm lift. To perfect the lift, one kindergarten teacher had the children elevate their right hands to loop their lunch bags over her raised arm. A fairy-tale illustration shows the prince waking Sleeping Beauty with a kiss and a Nazi salute.
Allert's specialty is listed as "microsociology." Micro as in microbe, a tiny organism that in its billions swelled into the Black Death. His "The Hitler Salute" plays all kinds of variations on a seemingly minor if absurd rite; not, of course, in the least comparable to death camps and wars of destruction. And yet, from instances that range between the comic and the grotesque, Allert traces a tragic connection. Without the pomposity of assertion he achieves an indelible suggestiveness.
The salute was decreed at the start of Nazi rule in 1933, with the stiff lifted arm for formal encounters. The armed forces were permitted to retain the military salute, but after a failed attempt by a group of officers to assassinate Hitler in 1944 they were granted their request to adopt the "heil" as a sign of fealty.
There was a massive campaign to eliminate the traditional greetings: the aforementioned "guten tag," "auf wiedersehen," "salus," the Bavarian "grüss gott," and Hamburg's peculiar honk: "moin, moin." The official students' organization declared that to use these was to incur the "suspicion of consciously obstructive behavior."
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What will be the Democrat version of this New Socialist greeting, come January of 2009?
I thought it was a story about Obama followers.
I think that was the general salute for all time until the Nazis used it so much. Even Americans: http://www.sott.net/images/American%20salute.jpg
It was just the political correctness of its day and place, enforced by socialists insisting on controlling others people’s lives.
'Sup, dawg?
I'm thinking "Oy, Obama!" has a nice ring to it...
Never forget
Hitler was a SOCIALIST.
He was head of the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” the (NAZI PARTY)
In English that translates to “National Socialist German Workers Party.”
So don’t let the Dems brand conservatives as “Hitlers”. They are just displaying their ignorance when they do.
This is just like North Korea where all the children want to please their dear leader. I watched a show about the New York Philharmonic going to North Korea to play in the capitol. It was creepy hearing the young children speak about a crazed moron as if he were a God. The children reminded me of victims of child molestation who painted their attacker as the greatest man in the world because they were afraid he would get mad at them.
Hillary is far more of a nationalist but still a socialist. I don't think we need a national-socialist, and I'm not willing to train my students to salute either one. No extra credit for "Heil Hillary!"
"Heil Honkey !"
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