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Product Description: Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture. In The Hitler Salute, sociologist Tilman Allert uses the Nazi transformation of a simple human interaction--the greeting--to show how a shared gesture can usher in the conformity of an entire society...read more

Hardcover:

9780805081787 | Metropolitan Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Provides a critical look at the origins, history, and dissemination of the infamous Heil Hitler salute in Nazi Germany from its compulsory adoption in 1933, assessing its meaning in terms of a symbol of loyalty to the Nazi regime, as a means of vesting Hitler with a divine aura, and as a ritual of consent that paved the way for the erosion of social morality.

Paperback:

9780312428303 | 1 edition (Picador USA, March 31, 2009), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture.

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