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On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:39 PM, <Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Seig Heil
>


Sieg Heil is a German phrase, which literally means "Victory Hail" or 
"hail victory". During the Nazi era, it was a common call at political 
rallies. When meeting someone, it was customary in Nazi Germany to give 
the Hitler salute and say the words "Heil Hitler". "Sieg Heil" was 
reserved for mass meetings such as the ones at Nuremberg where "Sieg 
Heil" was shouted in unison by thousands. Often a Nazi official would 
shout into a microphone "Sieg" and the crowd would answer with "Heil," 
and there might be several repetitions of this at times in 
ever-increasing volume. At such rallies there was often a display of 
banners carrying the slogan "Sieg Heil" along with the swastika. The 
NSDAP (Nazi Party) made a pin badge in 1933 displaying a victory 
wreath, the Swastika, and the words "Sieg Heil".

The expression itself was born during a party meeting, when Joseph 
Goebbels said "Sieg heil" and all supported the phrase (however an 
early associate of Hitler, Ernst Hanfstängl, claimed to have devised 
it). Since Nazism argued that war was a way to determine the superior 
race and that Germans were that superior race, hailing war was to hail 
the struggle that would eliminate all others and establish, in a social 
Darwinist manner, the "New Order."

Today in Germany, using the greeting in written form, vocally, and even 
extending the right-arm without the phrase are forbidden. 1. It is a 
criminal offence punishable by up to three years of prison (StGB, 
section 86a)2. The same is true for expressions that might be mistaken 
for "Sieg Heil". Usage for art, teaching and science purposes is exempt 
from punishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieg_Heil