The Nazi exclamation 'Sieg heil' means?
Nazi salute attention in the weeks following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, where, at a National Policy Institute conference, he quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews. In response to his cry "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!", a number of his supporters gave the Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the "Sieg Heil" chant. A junior prom photo of about 50 male students from the class of 2019 at Baraboo High School, most apparently giving a Sieg Heil Nazi salute, was shared on social media and quickly spread on Twitter on November 11, 2018. The photo attracted
Nazi salute wrote an editorial in "Il Popolo d'Italia" mocking the idea. "Sieg Heil" was a chant used at the Nazis' mass rallies, where enthusiastic crowds answered "Heil" (Hail!) to the call of "Sieg" (Victory). For example, at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Rudolf Hess ended his climactic speech with, "The Party is Hitler. But Hitler is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler. Hitler! Sieg Heil!" At his total war speech delivered in 1943, audiences shouted "Sieg Heil" as Joseph Goebbels solicited from them "a kind of plebiscitary 'Ja to total war. ('Ja' means 'yes' in German.) On 11 March 1945, less than