Pledge of Allegiance was origin of Olympic salute & Nazi salute -but newspapers won't tell readers
Edward Bellamy
official Olympic salute that no one wants to talk about. The official
Olympic salute is or was the straight-arm salute.
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html The straight-arm salute was not an
ancient Olympic salute and it was not a Greek salute. The modern Olympic
salute has the same origin as the salute of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party (Nazis): They both originated in the USA's pledge of
allegiance and the military salute.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html The salute was created by a
national socialist in the USA and was not from ancient Rome, as discovered
by Dr. Rex Curry. The "Roman salute" myth was reinforced by the "Olympic
salute" http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The first evidence of the "Olympic salute" myth is in an Olympic poster from
1924 when the games were in Paris.
http://rexcurry.net/olympic-salute1924.jpg
The 1924 poster shows semi-clothed athletes, a reminder of antiquity, making
the Olympic salute. In the background, the flag of the French Republic. In
the foreground, palm leaves, symbols of victory.
The next evidence is an Olympic poster for 1936 in Berlin.
http://rexcurry.net/olympic-salute1936.jpg
The 1936 poster features the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate, a landmark
of the city of Berlin. In the background is the figure of a wreathed victor,
his arm raised in the salute.
In the 1936 poster, the salute is not clear because only part of the arm is
shown. There are disputes about whether the Olympic salute differed from the
salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the 1936 poster
seems designed to obscure the issue, and it added to the debate.
No official poster was made for the first games, the 1896 Olympic Games, in
Athens. However, the cover page of the official report is often used to
refer to the Games of the I Olympiad and has the inscription "776-1896."
The second modern Olympics were in Paris.
One claim holds that the Olympic salute was used at the 1912 Stockholm
games, but no further evidence has been found yet. If that is true then it
would be more clear that the Olympic salute predated the Nazi salute and
probably helped (with the pledge of allegiance and early films with
innacurrate Roman scenes) to influence that adoption of the salute by the
Nazi-Sozi.
The first Olympic Games were in ancient Greece. They were revived by a
French nobleman, Pierre Fr�dy, Baron de Coubertin in 1896 and held every
fourth year, with the exception of the years during the World Wars.
The Games gradually lost in importance as the Romans gained power in Greece.
When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the
Olympic Games were seen as a "pagan" festival threatening Christian
hegemony, and in 393 the emperor Theodosius outlawed the Olympics, ending a
thousand year period of Olympic Games.
The interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia
were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. An ominous
parallel is that interest in the swastika / hakenkreuz grew also when the
ruins of ancient Troy were uncovered by German archaeologists in the
mid-19th century. http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html
The modern Olympics used a straight-arm salute similar to the salute of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party, and both were derived from the
USA's pledge of allegiance and military salute as written by a national
socialist in the USA, a discovery made at
http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
At the same time, Pierre, Baron de Coubertin searched for a reason for the
French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). He thought the reason
was that the French had not received proper physical education, and sought
to improve this. Coubertin also thought of a way to bring nations closer
together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than
fight in war. In his eyes, the revival of the Olympic Games would achieve
both of these goals.
The irony in all of the above only grew in the years to come, and during the
Olympic games in Berlin in 1936, and in WWII.
In a congress at the Sorbonne university in Paris held from June 16 to June
23, 1894 he presented his ideas to an international audience.
At the 1936 Olympic games in Germany the so called "Greco-Roman" salute
caused controversy and reinforced the "Roman salute" myth. The controversy
involved athletes who refused to perform the Olympic salute upon entering
the stadium because it would be misunderstood as a salute to Hitler, who was
present. Probably every article ever written about the Olympic salute was
reviewed in research for this article. In every article there was no author
who knew that the straight-arm salute was the prevailing salute for the
pledge of allegiance in the USA and had been since 1892, and there was no
author who knew of the historic discovery (by the journalist Rex Curry) that
the pledge of allegiance was the origin of the Olympic salute and of the
salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. News accounts
indicate that the USA's athletes did not use the Olympic salute in 1936.
Nevertheless, when Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, his
neighbors attended segregated government schools where they saluted the flag
with the Nazi salute. The U.S. practice of official racism and segregation
in government schools even outlasted the horrid Nazi Party, into the 1960's
and beyond.
Among others, the French athletes gave the salute. A few years later the
National Socialist German Workers' Party invaded France and occupied Paris.
The 1936 Olympics are well-known also because of Leni Riefenstahl's
"Olmypiad" as well as other film and still photographs of Jesse Owens, one
of the USA's athletes.
Olympiad and other photography of Jesse Owens shows Mr. Owens using a
military salute during the raising of the USA's flag and the playing of the
national anthem, while nearby Germans give the straight-arm salute. While
comment has been made elsewhere of the photographic illustration of the
salute, none of those comments point out that Mr. Owens is performing only
the introductory salute of the pledge of allegiance as it was in 1936, and
that Mr. Owens apparently did not perform the rest of the pledge's salute,
the straight-arm salute, presumably because he did not wish it
misinterpreted as a salute to the leader of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party.
In 1936, the military salute alone was not the customary civilian salute to
the USA's flag. The 1936 Olympics and the war that followed all added to
the 1942 interference by Congress regarding the civilian flag practice, and
Congress not only dropped the military salute, but also the primary
straight-arm salute, and legislated in favor of the hand-over-the-heart.
Why did Congress drop the military salute part of the pledge? RexCurry.net
is researching and here are some theories: 1. Military salutes and dress
outside of the military (e.g. by civilians or by children in schools doing a
flag pledge) is sometimes considered disrespectful or trivializing of the
military. It might even be dangerous in times of war in that it can cause
civilians to be mistaken for soldiers. 2. It is creepy to have children in
schools aping the military. The creepiness is heightened when the salute is
combined with a straight-arm salute that has been adopted the National
Socialist German Workers' Party.
In many respects, the 1936 winter games were very much of a test scenario
for the summer games in Berlin just a short five months away.
There is a recent example of the Olympic salute. The Olympic salute took
place on March 13, 2004 in Washington, D.C., during a Hellenic Heritage
Achievement and National Public Service Awards Presentation gala sponsored
by the Washington-based American Hellenic Institute (AHI). The VOA Greek
Service produced a 2 hour 30 minute live radio program from the Washington,
D.C. event location. Veteran journalist Mr. George Bistis anchored the
broadcast, entitled "Honoring the 2004 Athens Games," and Ms. Spyridonakou
interviewed several of the attendees.
News Journalism
bellamy.com> wrote:
> Another little-known fact about the Olympics is that there is an eye-popping
> official Olympic salute that no one wants to talk about. The official
> ancient Olympic salute and it was not a Greek salute. The modern Olympic
> salute has the same origin as the salute of the National Socialist German
> Workers' Party (Nazis): They both originated in the USA's pledge of
> national socialist in the USA and was not from ancient Rome, as discovered
> by Dr. Rex Curry. The "Roman salute" myth was reinforced by the "Olympic
> salute"http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
>
> The first evidence of the "Olympic salute" myth is in an Olympic poster from
>
> The 1924 poster shows semi-clothed athletes, a reminder of antiquity, making
> the Olympic salute. In the background, the flag of the French Republic. In
> the foreground, palm leaves, symbols of victory.
>
>
> The 1936 poster features the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate, a landmark
> of the city of Berlin. In the background is the figure of a wreathed victor,
> his arm raised in the salute.
>
> In the 1936 poster, the salute is not clear because only part of the arm is
> shown. There are disputes about whether the Olympic salute differed from the
> salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the 1936 poster
> seems designed to obscure the issue, and it added to the debate.
>
> No official poster was made for the first games, the 1896 Olympic Games, in
> Athens. However, the cover page of the official report is often used to
> refer to the Games of the I Olympiad and has the inscription "776-1896."
>
> The second modern Olympics were in Paris.
>
> One claim holds that the Olympic salute was used at the 1912 Stockholm
> games, but no further evidence has been found yet. If that is true then it
> would be more clear that the Olympic salute predated the Nazi salute and
> probably helped (with the pledge of allegiance and early films with
> innacurrate Roman scenes) to influence that adoption of the salute by the
> Nazi-Sozi.
>
> The first Olympic Games were in ancient Greece. They were revived by a
> fourth year, with the exception of the years during the World Wars.
>
> The Games gradually lost in importance as the Romans gained power in Greece.
> When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the
> Olympic Games were seen as a "pagan" festival threatening Christian
> hegemony, and in 393 the emperor Theodosius outlawed the Olympics, ending a
> thousand year period of Olympic Games.
>
> The interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia
> were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. An ominous
> parallel is that interest in the swastika / hakenkreuz grew also when the
> ruins of ancient Troy were uncovered by German archaeologists in the
>
> The modern Olympics used a straight-arm salute similar to the salute of the
> National Socialist German Workers' Party, and both were derived from the
> USA's pledge of allegiance and military salute as written by a national
Olympic Torch - A quintessential Olympic symbol was the product of
socialism. The New York Times reported that the use of the torch as an
Olympic symbol originated within the propaganda machine of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party and was first employed in the
1936 games in Berlin. According to the article, “The torch relay,
memorialized in Leni Riefenstahl’s film, Olympia, was part of Hitler’s
elaborate attempt to add myth, mystique and glamour to an Olympics
intended to intimidate pre-World War II Europe. In Hitler’s eyes, the
torch symbolized the perfection and victory of the German nation.”
While the Ancient Greeks did employ a continuously burning flame
during their Olympiad, they “opened their Olympics by word of mouth,
not fire" and into the streets they sent heralds harking, not
torchbearers bearing. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html
Says Mary Beard, a columnist for The Times of London: "I don’t quite
understand how we have forgotten that the “Olympic Torch” ceremony was
invented by Hitler and his chums." And "If ever there was an 'invented
tradition' well worth stamping out, it is this ridiculous, [socialist]-
inspired waste of money."
Ditto for the USA's Pledge of Allegiance, the origin of the Olympic
salute and the Nazi salute, as shown in the work of Dr. Rex Curry
(author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/olympic-salute1936b.JPG
Also see the sculpture by Gra Rueb in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://rexcurry.net/olympic-salute1928gra-rueb-amsterdam.jpg
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http://edward-bellamy.blogspot.com/2014/02/olympic-games-salute-nazi-salute-were.html
caryjamesbond is wrong because the reason that Bellamy is a HORRIBLE person- is that he had kids do the American socialist salute (in Bellamy's Pledge of Allegiance to the USA's flag), which is terrible because, you know, they beat, imprisoned and even lynched people who did not join in, and that inspired other socialists who used it globally, leading socialists to hold the world record for mass slaughter under Stalin, Mao and Hitler. See the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry for more on the above.
The fascists did get the gesture from Bellamy, as did their more populous ilk the socialists.
Bellamy was not horrified by it. America did not stop using it, and many people opposed the change with the argument "it is our salute, we started it." The ritual continues to this day in government schools (socialist schools) -only the gesture has changed.
The thing is, they got it from the same source: the USA's Pledge of Allegiance. it is not a variation on an ancient roman salute. That is an old stale debunked myth.
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Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance with the intent that it (with the mechanical gesturing) spread worldwide. Bellamy also organized a congress composed of youths of all nations of the world to begin at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. (The scheme originated with a committee of which Francis Bellamy was chairman).
http://rexcurry.net/francis-bellamy-daily-gleaner-kingston-jamaica.jpg
The spreading of America's Nazi salute also coincided nicely with the USA's hosting of the Olympics, including 1904 in St. Louis, which was also held in conjunction with the World's Fair in that city. Here is a list of some of the host nations from that time:
Athens, Greece: Summer 1896
Paris, France: Summer 1900
St. Louis, United States: Summer 1904
Athens, Greece: Summer 1906
London, United Kingdom: Summer 1908
Stockholm, Sweden: Summer 1912
Berlin, Germany: Summer 1916 Cancelled due to WWI
Antwerp, Belgium: Summer 1920
Chamonix, France: Winter 1924
Paris, France: Summer 1924
Film footage from that time (e.g. all the Olympics that preceded the socialist Mussolini and the socialist Hitler) would probably show citizens of the USA performing America's Nazi salute from the audience, and USA athletes performing it from the opening ceremonies, and USA athletes performing it from the winners stands, as is shown (in a modified version) by USA athletes as late as 1936 in Germany under the National Socialist German Workers Party (Jesse Owens competed in those games). In other words, film footage would show USA citizens and athletes using the stiff-armed gesture BEFORE the American socialist Bellamy's gesture became the official Olympic salute and BEFORE it was borrowed by the socialist Mussolini and the socialist Hitler.
See the image at http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-olympia-zeitung1936.jpg
And the web page at
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html
The first evidence of the "Olympic salute" myth is from Olympic posters, medals, and postage stamps from 1924 when the games were in Paris. http://rexcurry.net/olympic-salute1924.jpg
A popular, though debunked, myth is that the gesture came from Neo-classical paintings. The "Neo-Classical painting" lie is a very modern explanation (originating around 2008?). Or to explain it another way: research shows that the very idea of the painting "Oath of the Horatii" as a source of the gesture had NEVER been written of or otherwise urged before ~2008 when the claim was fabricated deliberately on wikipedia/wakipedia to cover up the putrid history of the Pledge of Allegiance. Pro-pledge statists will make the argument today as if it is a very old idea that the "Horatii" as the origin of the gesture. It is apparent that no one before ~2008 thought that David's painting had any influence upon the gesture, because no one ever made that claim. Jacques David's artwork "Oath of the Horatii" does not show the gesture though it is often deliberately mis-described as doing so. The artist David never used the term "Roman salute" (in any language) as the concept did not exist during his life.