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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

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Another contemporary claimed that Farage sang a racist song and performed the Nazi "Sieg heil" salute, while another alleged that as a prefect the future politician put a child in detention because of his skin colour.

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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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