Assertion: salute | /r/CapableOf | affirm people's collective identity
Facets:
value: as germans
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The salute thus replaced regional differences in greeting formulae  which varied from "Servus" in the south to "Moin-Moin" on the northern coastline  with a nationwide gesture, affirming people's collective identity above all as Germans, a single race united in a single Nazi cause.