The Nazis got it from the fascists who got it from a screenplay from D’Annunzio that Mussolini liked. D’Annunzio pulled it out of his ass, Romans didn’t salute like that.
apparently the stage production of Ben-Hur had it in 1899 and “Historians have instead determined that the gesture originated from Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, which displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting.” - Wikipedia
“It’s a Roman salute!”
“Where do you think the Nazis got it idiot?”
The Nazis got it from the fascists who got it from a screenplay from D’Annunzio that Mussolini liked. D’Annunzio pulled it out of his ass, Romans didn’t salute like that.
apparently the stage production of Ben-Hur had it in 1899 and “Historians have instead determined that the gesture originated from Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, which displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting.” - Wikipedia
but your point stands Romans didn’t do that shit.
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