Heil

John Smith: Our deal stands. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: North America is yours. / John Smith: And the rest of the Reich is yours. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: You have complete autonomy. / John Smith: Heil Goertzmann! (performs Nazi salute) / Wilhelm Goertzmann: Heil Smith! (performs Nazi salute)

Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens.

Health, Hitler, heils, and hatred are the “four H’s” used by United States Nazis to prevent Americanization of children whose parents are members of the German-American Bund.

Newsdealer Isador Gennett, the Bronx Jewish war veteran who created an international stir last October by laying a wreath at the German war memorial in Berlin to the accompaniment of Nazi “heils,” came to the defense of a fellow newsdealer, Joseph Ohmann, a German Catholic, by picketing his newsstand to prove he is not, as has been charged, a Nazi.

“Meanwhile,” said the Evening News, “the new German-Soviet entente presents a baffling picture. We see Herr Ribbentrop, the arch enemy of Communism and the life and soul of the Anti-Comintern Pact, who once referred to Communism as ‘the most terrible of all diseases,’ presenting himself on the doorstep of a be-swastika’d Moscow while the German Embassy staff greets him with ‘heils’ and Nazi salutes and the Russian-in-the-street looks on in silent but respectful astonishment.[…]”

[…] who simply walked out of the camp dressed as German guards, duplicating Nazi heils, the goosestep and other mannerisms.

Later I drove to the meeting and talked for two hours. Tremendous applause. Then heils and hand-clapping.

While frantic “heils” burst forth […]