In the days of Frederick the Great, people still saluted with their hats, with pompous gestures. It was to show him that he was not being confronted with arms, but with peaceful intentions. I’d read the description of the sitting of the Diet of Worms, in the course of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. I made it the salute of the Party long after the Duce had adopted it. Here’s his story, as Today I Found Out quotes from a “Table Talk” from 1942: From there, the Nazi party swiped the salute to use for their own rituals. It was adopted by the Olympics, and then also by the Italian Fascist Party. Some people think that both the Olympic and the Nazi versions came from an imaginary Roman salute (imaginary because there are no Roman accounts of this salute, but 19th and 20th century artwork all portrayed Romans doing it). The French team, who were trying to salute the Olympics, got a standing ovation from the German crowd who thought they were saluting the Fuhrer. Apparently no one could tell which teams were saluting Hitler, and which were saluting the Olympics. Apparently the Olympic salute came long before Hitler’s gesture, but it caused all sorts of confusion in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Which is why no one uses the official Olympic salute anymore.Īt Today I Found Out, they dig up the history, and confusion, caused by the salute. Unfortunately, it also kind of looks like you’re heiling Hitler. Kind of like you’re raising you’re hand in class. It goes like this: right arm out slightly and pointed upward, fingers together, palm out. If you really loved the Olympics, you would do the official Olympic salute.
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