Were Germans permitted to give the Hitler salute with the left arm?
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If physical disability prevented raising the right arm, it was acceptable to raise the left.
The source for this is Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Oxford University Press, 2001.
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