The Heil-Hitler Greeting.

An interesting thing about the Nazi regime is the way the old German greeting “good day” has disappeared. Now it is all “Heil Hitler” (usually slurred over) and used as a greeting, a farewell and even as an “excuse me.” It is quite universal and only the old people seem to slip. A very fine old lady with whom we stayed in Munich forgot and said “Guten Tag,” but corrected herself with an apologetic “Heil Hitler.”