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Sieg heil

[zeek hahyl]

interjection

German.
  1. hail to victory: a salute used by the Nazis.



Sieg Heil

/ ziːk hail /

  1. hail to victory: a Nazi salute, often accompanied by the raising of the right arm

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Instead of a surge of red hats embracing the "sieg heil" as their new troll-the-liberals-for-Elon gesture, the whole thing has faded away.

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Engaging in blunt apologetics for Hitler is quite a follow-up performance for a man who caused a "debate" over whether his stiff-armed salute at a Trump rally should be interpreted as the "sieg heil" it looked exactly like.

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Perhaps Musk wasn’t throwing up a deliberate sieg heil; he is notoriously physically awkward, throwing his limbs around in ways that are often outside of the normal range of human movement.

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Claire Aubin, a historian who specializes in Nazism within the United States, said Musk's gesture was a "sieg heil", or Nazi salute.

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At one point, Lillienfeld said “Sieg Heil” as he made the gesture, according to what the officer told investigators.

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