Nazi ceremony was a military ceremony in ancient Rome. Rudolf hess used this gesture to pay tribute to Hitler in Nazi Germany for the first time. Nazi rites originated from "Hi Caesar" in ancient Rome. Hitler advocated raising hands and opposed shaking hands, thinking that it would make Germans become bourgeois and demoralized, which was a very practical performance art.

Nazi salutes evolved from Roman salutes, with straight right hand and palm down, which means socialism is secretive. The earliest gesture was used by Mussolini's fascist party to ridicule people or things committed to power or dictatorship, and later it was used by Hitler and became one of the representative symbols of Nazism.

Nazi military salute was once one of the general hand-raising ceremonies in the United States from 1787 to 1934. Later, due to Nazi salute, it was changed to other hand-raising ceremonies by President Roosevelt. Apart from fascism and Nazism, this gesture is prohibited by legislation in many countries.