by: u1hcw9nx

Wrong WarCommons.<p>it started during the 18th century in France with The Oath of the Horatii. It is pseudohistorically associated with ancient Rome afterwards.<p>Ancient Romans did not use that salute.

7/25/2026, 7:24:51 PM

by: dmurray

This overeggs a bit the idea that Hitler &quot;lied about where it came from&quot;.<p>Hitler openly admired the Roman empire and alluded to Germany being the spiritual heir to it. Look at the neoclassical architecture, or the German imperial eagle, or even just identifying as the Third Reich, where the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire.<p>If he was misleading about the links with Rome, it was in retconning the founders of Rome as Nordics or &quot;Aryans&quot; rather than the sallow-skinned Mediterranean people everyone else assumes lived there at the time.

7/25/2026, 8:30:57 PM

by: ekjhgkejhgk

Maybe more relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roman_salute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roman_salute</a><p>&gt; Although it originated during the 18th century in France, it is pseudohistorically associated with ancient Rome.<p>&gt; According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was claimed to have been used in ancient Rome. However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern &quot;Roman&quot; salute. The salute had in fact originated more than a millennium later, in Jacques-Louis David&#x27;s painting The Oath of the Horatii (1784)

7/25/2026, 8:14:22 PM

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7/25/2026, 6:48:06 PM