Which Countries Have Made It Illegal To Do The Nazi Salute in the Wake of Elon Musk's Strange Rally Moment

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It’s 2025 and as of January 20th, Donald J. Trump is the 47th President of the United States. Speaking at a rally celebrating Mr. Trumps being sworn in as president, billionaire Elon Musk, now the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, sparked worldwide debate after making gestures that seem eerily close to a Nazi salute. Yair Ben-Dor has more.

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00:00It's 2025 and as of January 20th, Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United

00:07States.

00:08Speaking at a rally celebrating Mr. Trump being sworn in as president, billionaire Elon

00:14Musk, now the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, sparked worldwide debate after

00:21making gestures that seemed eerily close to a Nazi salute.

00:25According to the New York Times, the motion soon drew comparisons online to the salute

00:30popularized by Adolf Hitler, and others interpreted it as a Roman salute, which is also known

00:37as the fascist salute, and was later adopted by the Nazis.

00:42The Nazi variation of the gesture is illegal in some European countries, including Germany.

00:49The Independent reports giving the Nazi salute in Germany could result in a six-month prison

00:55sentence.

00:56The Nazi salute is also banned in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

01:00More so, there are restrictions on giving the Nazi salute in Switzerland and Sweden,

01:05where giving the gesture is classified as a hate crime.

01:10It remains unclear what exactly was behind Mr. Musk's gestures, but the issue has already

01:16succeeded in keeping people divided.

01:19While it's safe to say that most of the population agrees that the Nazi salute is a symbol of

01:25evil, the number of people who think the opposite is growing, and where it shall take

01:30the Western world, remains to be seen.

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