Heil Hitler
Subtitle: on the meaning of a gesture
By: Tilman Allert.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York,N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805081787
Subjects: Salutations -- Germany; National socialism -- Social aspects -- Germany; Political customs and rites -- Germany; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Work titles: Deutsche Gruss.
Notes: Translation of: Der deutsche Gruss.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shaping the beginning; title: The greeting as initial gift; title: German greetings; title: An oath by any other name; title: The origins of "Heil Hitler" and the rise of the sphere of mistrust; title: Devaluing the present  : the Germans' inner acceptance of the Hitler greeting; title: The long shadow of a fatal gesture.