Calling the infamous Nazi salute “sickening” is odd because it was just a salute [ nothing sickening in that ] which was modeled on the old Roman salute & was even still being used in the USA during the Pledge of Allegiance up until the same time period.
FDR’s “Civilian Conservation Corps” uniforms were indistinguishable from the SA’s.
Hitler’s German economic “miracle” was built on the same all-too-familiar sand. It seems he had no choice but to invade and plunder his neighbors as his country’s artificially-pumped economy was months away from abject collapse.