The Nazi Salute

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Seven minutes 'til Evening News time. I don't trust the phone line so I'll hang it up until 1800... Ok I'm back. Six 3.2 beers so far, and my main interest tonight is to avoid a repeat of last week's disaster. Hmm. That would make it about one beer every 30 minutes or so (several taps as I wrote the above, so I've put on the earphones).

As I review the unaddressed notes from last week one of them stands out: the Nazi salute. Was the NS a phallic symbol representing a virile German (uncircumcised) penis? If so, was that salute a deliberate rebuff to the Jews of Germany who may have been in the midst of circumcising German infants in the name of 'health?' And if so, was that salute the result of a conscious evaluation of the existing penile situation? Or was it, rather, a totally subconscous invention based on the then current 'penile health facts.' One wonders.

My conjecture is that the Nazi salute was a German phallic symbol which arose in the German Collective Unconscious, and which was based on a reaction to the singlemost international Jewish imperative: 'Circumcise them all!'

Were six million European Jews slaughtered because of an unconscious realization on the part of the Nazis that the National Penis was in peril?