Heil Hitler!

[lonestarnot]

The modern torch relay was introduced by Carl Diem, president of the Organization Committee for the Berlin Games of 1936, as part of an effort to turn the games into a glorification of the Third Reich. The torch ceremony is still practiced as of 2008.

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nazi_Germany


NOT! :thumbsdown: China you suck!

[devilgrrl]

1. Go Jessie Owens!!!!!!

Show those fascist fucks where they can stuff it!

[Zywiec]

2. Hiel? What does that mean? n/t

[lonestarnot]

4. Hell if I know, my third reich salute isn't so good.

:rofl: :P

[damntexdem]

6. Actually, that was a German salute also used in the U.S. to pledge allegience to the flag.

The Nazis appropriated it, and after that it was in disrepute.

[lonestarnot]

7. What? Link please.

[magellan]

8. Wikipedia - it was called the Bellamy Salute

After the man who wrote our pledge of allegiance and "invented" the arm-extended salute to go with it (it actually goes back to ancient times). This form of the flag salute was practiced in America from the late 1800s until about 1942. There's a picture of American children giving the salute here:

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

Bellamy was a socialist; maybe that and the old salute (which Americans proudly displayed until the rise of the Third Reich) are part of the reason RWers erroneously tie Hitler to socialism.

[lonestarnot]

9. Deammmmn!

[Hugabear]

3. This one sentence speaks wonders

Interestingly enough, Owens' general treatment in Germany was better than he had previously received in America, as he had no problem using public transportation or entering bars.

[damntexdem]

5. But their practice has not made perfect.

Unless you count riding a bus with a doused torch an example of perfection.

;-)

[lonestarnot]

10. Kick