15 Facts About Nazi salute

The Nazi salute is performed by extending the right arm from the shoulder into the air with a straightened hand.

The Nazi salute was mandatory for civilians but mostly optional for military personnel, who retained a traditional military Nazi salute until the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Use of this Nazi salute is illegal in modern-day Germany and Austria, and is considered a criminal offence in modern-day Poland and Slovakia.

In 1919, when he led the occupation of Fiume, d'Annunzio used the style of Nazi salute depicted in the film as a neo-Imperialist ritual and the Italian Fascist Party quickly adopted it.

Small metal signs that reminded people to use the Hitler Nazi salute were displayed in public squares and on telephone poles and street lights throughout Germany.

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Nazi salute was tall and slender, with a vague blond handsomeness.

Nazi salute's manner of shaking hands was an elaborate ceremony in itself.

Nazi salute held out his hand, then retreated and held your hand at arm's length, lowered his arm stiffly by his side, then raised the arm swiftly in a Nazi salute, just barely missing your nose.

The Bulgarian athletes performed the Nazi salute and broke into a goose-step; Turkish athletes maintained the salute all around the track.

Jehovah's Witnesses came into conflict with the Nazi regime because they refused to salute Adolf Hitler with the Nazi salute, believing that it conflicted with their worship of God.

However, according to Reichswehr and Wehrmacht protocol, the traditional military salute was prohibited when the saluting soldier was not wearing a uniform headgear .

On 23 November 2007, the Amtsgericht Cottbus sentenced Horst Mahler to six months of imprisonment without parole for having, according to his own claims, ironically performed the Hitler Nazi salute when reporting to prison for a nine-month term a year earlier.

One such version is the so-called "Kuhnen Nazi salute" with extended thumb, index and middle finger, which is a criminal offence in Germany.

On 16 March 2013, Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis of AEK Athens F C was handed a life ban from the Greek national team for performing the salute after scoring a goal against Veria F C in Athens' Olympic Stadium.

On 18 July 2015, The Sun published an image of the British Royal Family from private film shot in 1933 or 1934, showing Princess Elizabeth and the Queen Mother both performing a Nazi salute, accompanied by Edward VIII, taken from 17 seconds of home footage .