Chinas reaction to nazi saluting nationals
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Re: Chinas reaction to nazi saluting nationals
Are you sure they are giving the nazi salute?
Maybe it's the Olympic salute?
Maybe it's the Olympic salute?
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Re: Chinas reaction to nazi saluting nationals
Maybe the Chinese were using the old Olympic salute?
The Olympic Salute We Don’t Use Anymore Because it Looked too Much Like Heiling Hitler
Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
Original Olympic salute....
Olympic Games 1924 Paris
1932 Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremony
Watch from the 3 minute mark
If you really loved the Olympics, you would do the official Olympic salute. It goes like this: right arm out slightly and pointed upward, fingers together, palm out. Kind of like you’re raising you’re hand in class. Unfortunately, it also kind of looks like you’re heiling Hitler. Which is why no one uses the official Olympic salute anymore.
At Today I Found Out, they dig up the history, and confusion, caused by the salute. Apparently the Olympic salute came long before Hitler’s gesture, but it caused all sorts of confusion in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Apparently no one could tell which teams were saluting Hitler, and which were saluting the Olympics. 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.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... -19789031/
The Olympic Salute We Don’t Use Anymore Because it Looked too Much Like Heiling Hitler
Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
Original Olympic salute....
Olympic Games 1924 Paris
1932 Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremony
Watch from the 3 minute mark
If you really loved the Olympics, you would do the official Olympic salute. It goes like this: right arm out slightly and pointed upward, fingers together, palm out. Kind of like you’re raising you’re hand in class. Unfortunately, it also kind of looks like you’re heiling Hitler. Which is why no one uses the official Olympic salute anymore.
At Today I Found Out, they dig up the history, and confusion, caused by the salute. Apparently the Olympic salute came long before Hitler’s gesture, but it caused all sorts of confusion in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Apparently no one could tell which teams were saluting Hitler, and which were saluting the Olympics. 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.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... -19789031/
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Thor Heyerdahl Says: “Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.
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