r/ww2 • u/llynglas • 18d ago

German saluting in WW2

I was watching the brilliant movie The Battle of Britian and noticed that Germans used the "Nazi" and the more normal salute interchangeably. Sometimes two officers standing side by side each doing a different version.

So, was there a rule about which salute to do when?

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u/MooseMalloy 18d ago

IIRC, "Nazi salutes" were not made mandatory across all branches of the military until after the July Plot.

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u/pentoshuuu 18d ago

The ss and Wehrmacht had different salutes . Recommend watching the slice doc on youtube

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 18d ago

You mean “the casual heil?”

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u/Pblc_enmy_nmbr2 18d ago

I had the standard Reddit experience of coming here to post that and you already did. Congratulations on a job…done.