So was it Hitler's salute or not?
According to President Trump's inauguration this week, Eron Mask hit his right hand in his chest, then shot his arms diagonally up and turned his palms down. He did it twice.
It was very similar to the salute used in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. However, almost, surprisingly different interpretations began to spread.
Some commentators called it “Rome's salute.” Others explain it as a “heart -hearted” expression of joy, or rejected it as simply clumsy.
The anti -decomposition Federation website, which repeated the campaign against anti -Semitism, defined the Nazi salute as “raising the right arm extended by the palm” and “the world's most common white supremacists in the world. “The signboard of the hand” is ranked.
However, after Musk's hard salute, the eliminated league called it was “a nasty gesture at the moment of enthusiasm, not a salute of the Nazi.”
An Andrea Stroppa, known as a messenger of Musk in Italy, was posted on Social Media Platform X. “The Roman Empire is back and begins with Rome's salute.” He later deleted the post and said that “everything was all mentioned to the Nazi Fascism.”
Musk, who owns X, was posted in response to criticism.
Salute of straight arms means that it is very different in various places and different periods of history. However, when the right end was increasing again, it was easy to interpret this gesture intentionally and public. Especially in Germany, the history of salute remains the most powerful.
“You don't have to make this complicated.”
In Germany, the gestures made by Mr. Musk are illegal, along with other symbols and slogans in the Nazi era. (On Wednesday night, the rebellion protest projected an image showing the word “Heiltesla” in his salute and his company's facade in a German factory.)
The situation was very clear for German facilities.
“Hitler's salute is Hitler's salute.
“You don't need to make this unnecessarily complicated,” the editor said. “People in the political speech in front of a right -wing extremist audience” -Mot -right -right politicians from Germany, Italy, France, and the UK attended the inauguration ceremony. “Anyone who raises the right arm is salute Hitler several times at the swing manner and angle.”
“Now, anyone who thinks that the old” Roman salute “must be discovered as a reference of Musuk, is more than anything else, and is more than anything else.” I did it.
Roman salute is certainly heading to social media. Along with the image of an actor covered by a coarse movie of a particle coarse particles set in ancient Rome, Musuk raised his right arm as raising him.
But did you have Roman salute in ancient times? No: There is no evidence that salute was used in ancient Rome.
The actual history of salute is not well known -and much shorter. It was used in theatrical films in the late 19th century and films in the early 20th century, promoting the use of Italy and German fascists. And it was actually done for decades by American school children for completely different reasons.
From silent movies to European fascist
“Rome's salute is a modern invention,” said Martin Winker, a classic professor at George Mason, Virginia, and Rome's salute: Martin Winker, author of movie, history, and ideology.
“There is no evidence of Rome's art and paintings that survive the gestures of the ancient Romans,” he added.
This salute became the first popular in stage production and silent cinema when using costume drama gestures set in ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt.
“This is a visual gesture that was greatly developed during the quiet film era when many movies were set in ancient times,” said Winkler. “Why? If there is no sound, the dramatic gestures and what we think we are thinking about now were almost ubiquitous. The gestures we salute were no exception.”
Salute had an actual break -through in 1919. Gabriele Danunzio, a soldier and Italian poet, became a nationalist (working on the old Italian silent movie “Kabiria”) Fiam is the current part of the coastal city. I entered Fiam. Croatia.
He dominated Fium for 15 months as a kind of minicar, called the soldiers to Legion Nair and spoke from the balcony. And he adopted a ceremony that includes a straightforward salute that he called “Il Salute Romano”.
“This Rome's salute resembled a stab wound. You stretched your arms, stretched the corners upwards with your fingers, and as if it were a dagger that pierced the enemy's throat.” Winkler said. “It's a very military -ized, politicized gesture.”
Rome's salute was immediately adopted by Italian Fascist Benite Mussolini, who gained power in 1923. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party called German salute in 1926.
Interestingly, there was an American salute ahead of both.
Salute to the American flag
In modern eyes, it is annoying to see a group of schoolchildren who have been rigidly armed on the American flag. But gestures were common for decades.
1892 -It is registered at the Chicago World Fair to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Columbus arriving in the United States. Until now school children.
Along with his boss, James Apren, Bellamy has a salute accompanied by a vow. It has come to be known as a Salute Bellamy.
The pledge itself was part of the Americanization program for immigrants. However, in 1942, when the United States was fighting Nazi in World War II, an extended arm gesture was abandoned. “I was too close to Nazi's salute,” said Winkler.
Even though Elon Musk was about to call on Monday, his salute was quite close to the Nazi salute, even if it was not the same. He first put his hand in his chest, which is not part of the Nazi salute, which is close to what American schools did until 1942.
However, Allegience Salute's pledge was dropped in a way that does not leave no misunderstanding. The gesture was closely connected to the Nazis.
“The general American perception,” These are our enemies and we don't want to be like them, “said Winker.
Musk is currently recruiting far -right political parties in several European countries. On the day of the inauguration ceremony, his audience in Washington included Tino Krupara, a joint leader of the German German party. The Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni, the party, is derived from the fascist movement. Nigel Farrage, a British reform party. Eric Xenmore in France is even on the right of the French people's Rally Marine Le Pen.
“I can predict what is happening now,” Die Zeit said in an editorial. “Neo -Nazi and right -wing militants can interpret the extended right arm as a gesture of fraternity and empowerment.”
Emma Bobora Rome has contributed to the report.