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\"Sieg Heil,\" and used as an official sign of loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi party-state.", "scope_statement": "This model owns occurrences and representations of the gesture identified as a Nazi salute, including its observable form, identification evidence, communicative context, attribution uncertainty and context-dependent handling.", "in_scope": [ "Observable bodily features and movement of a suspected Nazi salute", "Evidence connecting an occurrence to Nazi symbolism or identification", "Participants, audience, setting and circumstances of performance", "Differences between endorsement, coercion, quotation, criticism and ambiguous use", "Photographic, audiovisual, illustrated and staged representations of the gesture", "Applicable handling requirements and the evidence needed to justify a response" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Nazism as an ideology or historical political movement", "Membership and organisational structure of Nazi or neo-Nazi groups", "Other salutes and gestures except where needed for identification boundaries", "A participant's overall beliefs, identity or culpability beyond evidence from the occurrence", "Complete histories of events, artworks or media containing the gesture", "General hate-speech law, platform policy or criminal proceedings" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Assess whether the visible arm extension, hand orientation and movement are consistent with a Nazi-salute interpretation; a raised arm alone is insufficient.", "Compare the complete movement and immediate interaction with plausible alternatives such as waving, pointing, reaching or another salute.", "Check for accompanying words, symbols, explicit naming or other contextual evidence connecting the gesture to Nazism, recording which evidence is actually available.", "Distinguish recognition of the depicted gesture from endorsement by its performer, publisher or audience.", "Treat a cropped still, partial limb view or edited sequence as limited evidence when competing interpretations depend on missing movement or context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Observed gesture configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Arm used; extension direction; elbow position; palm and finger orientation; visibility of each feature", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification through observable details rather than an unsupported label." }, { "name": "Movement sequence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Entry movement, held position, repetition and exit movement; unavailable where not observed", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish a salute from a similar-looking moment within another action." }, { "name": "Visible duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds, with start and end criteria and an indication of whether the recording is complete", "why_it_matters": "Separates a transient pose from a sustained or repeated gesture without making duration decisive." }, { "name": "Identification assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, supported, contested, indeterminate or alternative interpretation supported", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the classification revisable and distinguishes uncertainty from absence." }, { "name": "Associated Nazi references", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to observed utterances, symbols, explicit descriptions or event context, each with its evidence source", "why_it_matters": "Records contextual support without inventing accompanying references." }, { "name": "Performance context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Reported or evidenced endorsement, coercion, historical reenactment, quotation, criticism, parody, mixed context or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents gesture recognition from automatically becoming an inference about commitment." }, { "name": "Evidence medium", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Direct observation, still image, continuous recording, edited recording, illustration, textual report or synthetic depiction", "why_it_matters": "Determines which features and contextual claims the evidence can support." }, { "name": "Participant attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed or reported performer, audience, director or coercing actor, with separate attribution evidence", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assigning a gesture or its intended meaning to an unsupported identity." }, { "name": "Applicable handling basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated legal, institutional or platform rule linked to the relevant jurisdiction, venue and intended action", "why_it_matters": "Makes handling decisions depend on verified applicable rules rather than assumed universal restrictions." } ], "affordances": [ "Annotate visible gesture features and competing interpretations.", "Request additional frames, audio or surrounding context needed to assess identification.", "Separate evidence of the gesture from claims about endorsement or participant identity.", "Describe or contextualise a depiction for archival, educational or review purposes.", "Evaluate a proposed display, publication or moderation action against verified applicable rules.", "Escalate contested identification or consequential handling decisions for human review." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "bgbl-stgb-86a", "title": "Strafgesetzbuch § 86a - Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger und terroristischer Organisationen", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__86a.html", "what_it_supports": "German criminal ban on using Nazi symbols, including the Hitler salute, outside narrowly defined exceptions (art, science, teaching, reporting).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ris-verbotsgesetz", "title": "Verbotsgesetz 1947 (Nationalsozialistengesetz)", "url": "https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10000207", "what_it_supports": "Austrian prohibition of National Socialist activity, including public use of the salute as a Nazi emblem.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "ushmm-nazi-salute", "title": "Nazi salute / Hitler salute (Hitlergruß)", "url": "https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/", "what_it_supports": "Museum encyclopedia treatment of the salute as an official Nazi greeting and loyalty ritual.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q160219", "title": "Nazi salute (Q160219)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160219", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifier, aliases (Hitlergruß, Deutscher Gruß, Hitler salute), and links to the Roman and fascist salutes as neighbouring concepts.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gesture-recognition", "name": "Gesture recognition", "description": "The bodily form and movement evidence needed to assess a Nazi-salute interpretation.", "rationale": "A model must distinguish a recognisable gesture from an isolated raised-arm resemblance.", "layers": [ { "id": "visible-configuration", "name": "Visible configuration", "description": "Observable arm and hand features, including what the evidence obscures.", "findings": [ { "id": "arm-and-hand-evidence", "name": "Arm and hand evidence", "description": "Record the visible configuration without assuming that every occurrence has an identical pose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which arm extension, elbow, palm and finger features are visible in this suspected Nazi salute?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "arm-and-hand-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which relevant features are hidden, blurred or distorted by viewpoint?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "arm-and-hand-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-alternatives", "name": "Movement and alternatives", "description": "The temporal evidence needed to distinguish a salute from another action.", "findings": [ { "id": "salute-versus-transient-pose", "name": "Salute versus transient pose", "description": "Assess the whole available action and document plausible competing interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the arm enter, hold and leave the suspected salute position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "salute-versus-transient-pose-q01" }, { "text": "Could waving, pointing, reaching or another salute explain the observed sequence, and what evidence distinguishes those alternatives?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "salute-versus-transient-pose-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "nazi-reference-and-meaning", "name": "Nazi reference and meaning", "description": "Evidence connecting the gesture to Nazi symbolism and supporting interpretations of its use.", "rationale": "Identifying a Nazi reference and attributing endorsement are separate judgements.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference-evidence", "name": "Reference evidence", "description": "Contextual support for naming the observed gesture a Nazi salute.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-basis", "name": "Identification basis", "description": "Identify which visual, verbal or contextual evidence supports or contests the Nazi-salute label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What accompanying words, symbols or explicit descriptions connect this gesture to Nazism?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identification-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Who identified it as a Nazi salute, and did that identification rely on direct evidence or another person's account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identification-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-intent", "name": "Use and intent", "description": "The supported distinction between performing the gesture and endorsing what it invokes.", "findings": [ { "id": "communicative-role", "name": "Communicative role", "description": "Record evidence for endorsement, quotation, criticism, parody or another role while preserving conflicting accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports the claimed role of the Nazi salute in this occurrence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "communicative-role-q01" }, { "text": "Which conclusions about the performer's intent remain unsupported even if the gesture is identifiable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "communicative-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "performance-and-social-setting", "name": "Performance and social setting", "description": "Who performed or directed the gesture, to whom, and under what circumstances.", "rationale": "Voluntariness, audience and interaction affect how an occurrence should be understood and handled.", "layers": [ { "id": "agency-and-direction", "name": "Agency and direction", "description": "Participant attribution and evidence about voluntary, instructed or coerced performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "performer-and-pressure", "name": "Performer and pressure", "description": "Separate the observed performer from any actor who instructed, staged or compelled the gesture.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the person performing the suspected Nazi salute?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "performer-and-pressure-q01" }, { "text": "Was the gesture self-initiated, directed for a performance or made under pressure, and what 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of its presentation.", "findings": [ { "id": "depiction-versus-promotion", "name": "Depiction versus promotion", "description": "Assess the framing of historical, fictional, educational, critical or promotional presentations independently of the depicted gesture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the material present an actual occurrence, a staged performance, an illustration or a synthetic scene?", "kind": "definition", "id": "depiction-versus-promotion-q01" }, { "text": "What captions, narration or surrounding material support an interpretation of the publisher's use of the Nazi-salute depiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "depiction-versus-promotion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-review", "name": "Handling and review", "description": "Evidence-based decisions about documenting, displaying, restricting or escalating an occurrence or depiction.", "rationale": "Recognition alone does not settle what an agent may do with a Nazi-salute occurrence or representation.", "layers": [ { "id": "applicable-restrictions", "name": "Applicable restrictions", "description": "The verified rules governing the particular performance, venue or publication action.", "findings": [ { "id": "rule-and-context-fit", "name": "Rule and context fit", "description": "Connect proposed handling to an authoritative rule and its actual scope without assuming a universal prohibition or exception.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current rule applies to this Nazi-salute performance or depiction in the relevant jurisdiction, venue or platform?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rule-and-context-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What contextual conditions or exceptions must be verified before applying that rule?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rule-and-context-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-and-reconsideration", "name": "Decision and reconsideration", "description": "The action justified by available evidence and the conditions requiring further review.", "findings": [ { "id": "proportionate-response", "name": "Proportionate response", "description": "Record the chosen handling action, its evidential basis and unresolved identification or contextual questions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence justify description, contextualisation, restricted display, moderation escalation or another available action?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-response-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence or qualified review is needed before a consequential decision about this suspected Nazi salute?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Civilian Hitlergruß (Deutscher Gruß): the everyday raised-arm greeting required in public life after 1933", "Military and SA/SS parade salute: a stiffened, often higher arm used in formations, reviews, and oath-taking", "Party-congress and mass-rally salute: synchronized arm-raising with chanted \"Sieg Heil\" as a crowd ritual", "Oath and flag salute: the gesture as part of the Führereid and other loyalty ceremonies", "Postal and documentary formula: written \"Heil Hitler!\" closing letters and official papers without the physical gesture", "Post-1945 extremist or neo-Nazi performance of the same gesture as a banned political symbol", "Parodic, theatrical, or 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jurisdictions treating the gesture as a banned political symbol even where it is not a standalone criminal offence." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Nazi salute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Official greeting of the German Reich and NSDAP, 1933-1945, in schools, offices, the Wehrmacht (after 1944 increasingly displacing the military hand salute), SA/SS, and public events.", "Mass choreography at Nuremberg rallies and similar party spectacles, often with the spoken \"Sieg Heil.\"", "Written closing \"Heil Hitler!\" on civil and military correspondence.", "After 1945: evidence in criminal and administrative cases, museum and documentary depiction, and (illegally in several countries) extremist demonstrations or isolated public incidents." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Nazi salute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Arm elevation from the horizontal", "typical_range": "about 30-45 degrees above horizontal in the canonical civilian form; steeper in some parade variants", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "Legal consequence in Germany for public use as a Nazi Kennzeichen", "typical_range": "fine or imprisonment up to 3 years under StGB § 86a (higher if combined with § 130)", "unit": "year (maximum custodial term)" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Nazi salute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Criminal liability where the gesture is a banned Nazi symbol (Germany, Austria, and comparable bans elsewhere).", "False positives: ordinary raised-arm waves, pointing, or sports celebrations misread as the salute.", "False negatives: abbreviated, one-handed, or ironic performances still treated by courts as the Hitlergruß when intent and context are clear.", "Harm as a threat or humiliation when directed at victims of Nazism or at the public as a political intimidation signal.", "Platform and workplace sanctions even in jurisdictions without a specific criminal ban." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Nazi salute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Germany and Austria: named Hitlergruß or Deutscher Gruß; public performance is a criminal offence except for privileged contexts.", "Italy and some other European states: often grouped with the Fascist Roman salute; local bans and case law differ.", "United States and much of the English-speaking world: usually called \"Nazi salute\" or \"Hitler salute\"; typically protected as speech unless tied to true threats, incitement, or private-venue rules.", "Historical Nazi usage itself varied by setting: civilian street greeting versus military/party drill." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these 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Shared kinematics do not make them the same legal or historical object." }, { "name": "Italian Fascist salute", "difference": "Same family of raised-arm greetings, but tied to Mussolini's regime and Italian Fascist ritual, not to Hitler and the NSDAP; Italian and German criminal and historical treatments are distinct." }, { "name": "Bellamy salute (U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, to 1942)", "difference": "A palm-out raised-arm Pledge gesture abandoned because it resembled the Fascist/Nazi salute; identified by U.S. school/civic context and the Pledge text, not by Nazi formulae." }, { "name": "Olympic salute (early IOC games)", "difference": "A straight-arm Olympic greeting discontinued after visual confusion with Fascist/Nazi salutes; distinguished by sporting/IOC setting and lack of Hitler formulae." }, { "name": "Ordinary military hand salute", "difference": "Fingers to the headgear or brow; the Nazi form extends the whole arm. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Nazi salute from another, and a Nazi salute from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Nazi salute, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Nazi salute, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Nazi salute sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Nazi salute, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Nazi salute, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Nazi salute from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Nazi salute, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Nazi salute, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Nazi salute passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Nazi salute between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Nazi salute, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Nazi salute, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Nazi salute, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Nazi salute is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Nazi salute, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Nazi salute, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Nazi salute is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and 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Nazi salute operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Nazi salute and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Nazi salute?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Nazi salute?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Nazi salute came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to 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