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

Publication | Library Call Number: GT3050.5.G3 A4513 2008

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Uniform Title: Deutsche Gruss. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Allert, Tilman.
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2008
Locale: Germany
Language: English
External Link: Contributor biographical information
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Edition: 1st U.S. ed

Physical Description: 115 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
ISBN: 9780805081787
080508178X
Notes: Translation of: Der deutsche Gruss.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-106) and index.

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.
Subjects: Salutations--Germany.
National socialism--Social aspects--Germany.
Political customs and rites--Germany.
Germany--History--1933-1945.
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