The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology

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During marching armed parades only the officer in command salutes for the whole unit, briefly bringing the flat of his sword to his face if in full dress, or giving the standard hand salute if in combat uniform. This (the full gesture is shown here) was by then becoming old-fashioned as a general social greeting, but had once been normal. In the total commitment or blind obedience of a single, exclusive group lies the potentiality of the authoritarian state. The naval salute, with the palm downwards is said to have evolved because the palms of naval ratings, particularly deckhands, were often dirty through working with lines and was deemed insulting to present a dirty palm to an officer; thus the palm was turned downwards. In the United States, clenched fist was described by the magazine Mother Earth as "symbolical of the social revolution" in 1914.Other uniformed organizations/institutions which are not part of the military/ police will implement a hand salute as done by members of the military/police. The same applies if the right hand is carrying any item that cannot easily be transferred to the left hand. This involves holding the hand, palm forwards, with all the fingers held in a clenched fist position. In June 1928, Rudolf Hess published an article titled "The Fascist Greeting", which claimed that the gesture was used in Germany as early as 1921, before the Nazis had heard about the Italian Fascists.

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It was first widely used by Zog's personal police force and was later adopted by the Royal Albanian Army. In his 1953 comic book album Le dictateur et le champignon, which is part of the Spirou et Fantasio series, Belgian artist Franquin creates a silly salute, used in a fictional Latin American country named Palombia. notes 1] A raised arm gesture was then used in the 1899 American stage production of Ben-Hur, [27] and its 1907 film adaptation.bringing the right hand vigorously to the visor of the headdress, with the tip of the fingers over the right eye; the hand in line with the forearm, with the palm facing downwards, the fingers joined and stretched, the index finger in contact with the edge of the visor; horizontal arm, forearm naturally inclined". slight over-rotation of the wrist), the Canadian military salutes to demonstrate a mark of respect and courtesy for the commissioned ranks. The first type is employed by the Royal Danish Navy and Guard Hussar Regiment Mounted Squadron, and is the same as the one used by the U. The salute was required of all persons passing the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, site of the climax of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which the government had made into a shrine to the Nazi dead; so many pedestrians avoided this mandate by detouring through the small Viscardigasse behind that the passage acquired the nickname "Dodgers' Alley" ( Drückebergergasse).