george messersmith was american through and through. hated the nazis, happily, happily, messer smith -- messersmith treated the third reich kind of the way an anthropologist would treat a be a bore original tribe. he wet at detail and length about all kinds of things because this was brand new. swastika, let me backtrack a second. the swastika itself was not a brand new thing. i personally own a collection of the works of rudyard kipling published in the 1890s, every book on his binding has a swastika because it is indian good luck sign. but as a political symbol in the modern age this was brand new. back to the hitler salute. so messersmith, who by the way wrote so long on so many subjects was nicknamed, 40-pages george, he wrote analysis, series of observations about the hitler salute because this was such a novel thing. i just read a brief, only thing i'm going to read, i promise you. the salute he wrote, had no modern precedent, say for the more narrowly required salute of soldiers in the presence of superior officers. what made the

so messersmith who by the way so and long on some and subjects was named 40 pages george. he wrote an analysis of observations about hitler salute because this was such a novel thing. a salute he would have no modern precedents for the salute of soldiers in the presence of the superior officers. that made a practice unique is that a review is expected to salute even in the most mundane encounters. shopkeepers sold to customers, children were required to salute their teachers several times a day and at the close of the theatrical performances a newly established custom demanded audiences stand and salute as they sing the first german national anthem and second, the storm trooper and thumb, the so-called horse vessels long. especially in the public a buildings where everybody from the lower passengers to the loftiest officials to be titled one other turning it into an exhausting a fair. i hope to catch the sense of the gradual darkening to have this vision of them suddenly as the two characters in a nonfiction grim brothers retail and things get darker and darker and darker