ISBN-13: 978-1-85973-886-5
Writer: Chad Ross
Writer: Chad Ross
Τitle: Naked Germany
Subtitle: Health Race and the Nation
Language: English
Subtitle: Health Race and the Nation
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: Oxford, New York
Publisher: Berg
Year of Publication: 2005
Publisher: Berg
Year of Publication: 2005
Format: 153x234mm
Pages:xi+239
Illustrations: 18 black and white pictures
Front Cover Photo: Sieg der Körperfreunde, Geist und Schönheit, Dresden
Cover Design: Raven Design
Binding:Paperback in duotone covers
Illustrations: 18 black and white pictures
Front Cover Photo: Sieg der Körperfreunde, Geist und Schönheit, Dresden
Cover Design: Raven Design
Binding:Paperback in duotone covers
Weight: 389gr.
Twentieth-century efforts to create a fit and racially pure Germany, most clearly evident in the policies of Nazi Germany, tended to focus almost entirely on reforming the national body while paying little attention to the personal body. The Freikörperkultur, or nudist, movement, is an important and unique exception, in that it focused on the personal body as a means of reinvigorating and regenerating the larger national or racial body. Naked Germany provides the first comprehensive history of the Freikörperkultur, a movement that anticipated Nazi ideology in many ways.
From its earliest days at the turn of the century, nudism was conceived and practiced as a means by which the German race could reform itself, one person at a time, into a racially purer, better people. Contemporary observers beiieved that, physically and psychologically, Germans were becoming a degenerate Volk.
The nudist formula for personal and racial regeneration was first to create healthy Germans by curing and preventing disease and moral hypocrisy through heavy doses of nudity, sunlight and air. The now healthy and beautiful Germans could then begin to replenish their national stock through better mate selection and marriages, ultimately breeding a racially pure and natural Volk, more akin to their distant Germanic ancestors.
Nudist ideology was a potent combination of Darwinism, völkisch nationalism and nature therapy --all deeply rooted in racial theory and designed to transform Germany into a nudist, racial utopia. In considering this often overlooked aspect of German culture, Ross sheds new light on the popularity of Nazi theories of racial hygiene and the history of the body.
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Twentieth-century efforts to create a fit and racially pure Germany, most clearly evident in the policies of Nazi Germany, tended to focus almost entirely on reforming the national body while paying little attention to the personal body. The Freikörperkultur, or nudist, movement, is an important and unique exception, in that it focused on the personal body as a means of reinvigorating and regenerating the larger national or racial body. Naked Germany provides the first comprehensive history of the Freikörperkultur, a movement that anticipated Nazi ideology in many ways.
From its earliest days at the turn of the century, nudism was conceived and practiced as a means by which the German race could reform itself, one person at a time, into a racially purer, better people. Contemporary observers beiieved that, physically and psychologically, Germans were becoming a degenerate Volk.
The nudist formula for personal and racial regeneration was first to create healthy Germans by curing and preventing disease and moral hypocrisy through heavy doses of nudity, sunlight and air. The now healthy and beautiful Germans could then begin to replenish their national stock through better mate selection and marriages, ultimately breeding a racially pure and natural Volk, more akin to their distant Germanic ancestors.
Nudist ideology was a potent combination of Darwinism, völkisch nationalism and nature therapy --all deeply rooted in racial theory and designed to transform Germany into a nudist, racial utopia. In considering this often overlooked aspect of German culture, Ross sheds new light on the popularity of Nazi theories of racial hygiene and the history of the body.
Chad Ross
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