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Old Thu Jun 19, 2008, 03:43pm
Welpe Welpe is offline
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Originally Posted by argodad
Sticks in my mind that it was a raised hand, and it was changed in the late 1930s because it was too much like the Nazi salute. Or am I misremembering again?
You got it. Also known as the "Roman Salute" before the Nazis and Italian Fascists ruined it.
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