The Hitler salute : on the meaning of a gesture

The Hitler salute : on the meaning of a gesture / Tilman Allert ; translated by Jefferson Chase.

"Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture. In Heil Hitler: The History of a Gesture, sociologist Tilman Allert uses the Nazi transformation of the most mundane human interaction, the greeting, to show how National Socialism brought about the submission and conformity of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allert, Tilman
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Salutations > Germany.
National socialism > Social aspects > Germany.
Political customs and rites > Germany.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Uniform Title:Deutsche Gruss.
Table of Contents:
  • Shaping the beginning
  • The greeting as initial gift
  • German greetings
  • An oath by any other name
  • The rise of the sphere of mistrust
  • Devaluing the present
  • The long shadow of a fatal gesture.

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