heil

present singular third person heils · participle present heiling · participle past heiled · past heiled

1. To greet with a Sieg Heil.

   John Smith: Our deal stands. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: North America is yours. / John Smith: And the rest of the Reich is yours. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: You have complete autonomy. / John Smith: Heil Goertzmann! (performs Nazi salute) / Wilhelm Goertzmann: Heil Smith! (performs Nazi salute)

   2019 November 19, Mark Richard, David Scarpa, “For Want of a Nail”, in The Man in the High Castle (TV series), season 4, episode 9, spoken by John Smith and Wilhelm Goertzmann (Rufus Sewell and Marc Rissmann)

plural heils

1. A Sieg Heil.

   Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens.

   1937, Pathfinder, volume 44, Farm Journal, Incorporated, page 15, column 1

   5 more examples

   Health, Hitler, heils, and hatred are the “four H’s” used by United States Nazis to prevent Americanization of children whose parents are members of the German-American Bund.

   1938, Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings Before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-Fifth Congress, Third Session, on H. Res. 282, volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 1123

   Newsdealer Isador Gennett, the Bronx Jewish war veteran who created an international stir last October by laying a wreath at the German war memorial in Berlin to the accompaniment of Nazi “heils,” came to the defense of a fellow newsdealer, Joseph Ohmann, a German Catholic, by picketing his newsstand to prove he is not, as has been charged, a Nazi.

   1938, The Advocate: America’s Jewish Journal, volume 94, page 22, column 1

   “Meanwhile,” said the Evening News, “the new German-Soviet entente presents a baffling picture. We see Herr Ribbentrop, the arch enemy of Communism and the life and soul of the Anti-Comintern Pact, who once referred to Communism as ‘the most terrible of all diseases,’ presenting himself on the doorstep of a be-swastika’d Moscow while the German Embassy staff greets him with ‘heils’ and Nazi salutes and the Russian-in-the-street looks on in silent but respectful astonishment.[…]”

   1940, Elswyth Thane, “Here We Go Again”, in England Was an Island Once, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 227

   […] who simply walked out of the camp dressed as German guards, duplicating Nazi heils, the goosestep and other mannerisms.

   1946, The Polish Review and East European Affairs, volume 6, page 6, column 2

   Later I drove to the meeting and talked for two hours. Tremendous applause. Then heils and hand-clapping.

   1948, Louis P[aul] Lochner, transl., The Goebbels Diaries, New York, N.Y.: Charter, page 15

plural Heils

1. A surname from German.