Sieg Heil, meaning 'hail victory,' was the verbal salute of the Nazi Party in Germany, shouted by crowds at rallies and parades throughout the 1930s and early 1940s alongside the raised-arm gesture. After World War II it was banned in Germany and Austria, but recordings survived in newsreels and propaganda films. The chant later entered documentaries, history classrooms and films about the Third Reich as an unmistakable audio symbol of fascism. Online it circulates in historical edits and provocative memes, where its shock value keeps it recognizable decades later.