Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and fascism at New York University, wrote on X that the gesture was a “Nazi salute – ...

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The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.

It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too," Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history at New York University, wrote on Bluesky. Regardless of Musk's intention, ...

Aaron Astor, a history professor at Maryville College in Tennessee, supported the ADL’s position and said on X that it was “not a Nazi salute”.

We also wanted to give an overview of this internationally-recognized gesture’s history. The Nazi Party first adopted the salute in the early 1920s as a symbol of allegiance to Adolf Hitler.