Dr. Rex Curry showed that the USA's early Pledge of
Allegiance (to the flag) used a straight-arm salute and
it was the origin of the salute of the monstrous
National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). Dr.
Curry helped to establish that it was not an ancient
Roman salute, and that the "ancient Roman salute" is a
myth.
http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html The myth is
still repeated in modern efforts to cover-up Dr. Curry's
discoveries about the Pledge's poisonous pedigree.
The original Pledge began with a military salute that
then stretched out toward the flag. Historic photographs
are at
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html and at
http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html In actual
use, the second part of the gesture was performed with a
straight arm and palm down by children casually
performing the forced ritual chanting. Professor Curry
showed that, due to the way that both gestures were used
sequentially in the pledge, the military salute led to
the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute is an extended military
salute.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance")
and Edward Bellamy (author of the novel "Looking
Backward") and Charles Bellamy (author of "A Moment of
Madness") were socialists. Edward and Charles were
brothers, and Francis was their cousin. Francis and
Edward were both self-proclaimed National Socialists and
they supported the "Nationalism" movement in the USA,
the "Nationalist" magazine, the "Nationalist Educational
Association," and their dogma of "military socialism,"
and Edward inspired the "Nationalist Party" (in the USA)
and their dogma influenced socialists worldwide
(including Germany) via “Nationalist Clubs.”
http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-german-connections.html
The Pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute. "Nazi"
means "National Socialist German Workers' Party." A
mnemonic device is the swastika. Although the swastika
was an ancient symbol, Professor Curry discovered that
it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists
to represent "S" letters for their "socialism." Curry
changed the way that people view the symbol of the
horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party. Hitler
altered his own signature to use the same stylized "S"
letter for "socialist" and similar alphabetic symbolism
still shows on Volkswagens.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html