Posted on 12/24/2014 6:46:24 AM PST by C19fan
Frankly, the parade is exquisite. The marchers wear clean, crisp uniforms. They hold their banners high. Enormous sculptures of horses and men loom over the procession.
It’s footage from German Arts Day—in 1939. A march in celebration of the Nazi aesthetic.
“The government—half of which consists of men who once aspired to serve the arts—is conscious of the artist’s role as an intermediary,” the narrator says, quoting famed Nazi literati Hans-Friedrich Blunck.
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In our media saturated culture, I think it would be hard to argue we are any less obsessed over, “beauty,” and in fact, more inclined to let others define, “beauty” for us.
Naziism was statism brought to its extreme. Kiinda like the path we ourselves are on now.
I don’t know why you say “perverted.” Those uni’s were drop dead gorgeous, period. Sure, they were worn by perverse men, but beautiful cloth is beautiful cloth.
And the Wehrmacht uniforms were almost as good, at least the officer uniforms.
It’s a very gay aesthetic. It just is.
How so?
AH himself was former artist, and art seems to be his main passion after war and politics. The Nazis glorified the tall, blond, blue eyed Aryan super race. And they were deeply into the occult. Truth was they were a bunch of gangster and thugs, but they were the masters of showmanship, myth and propaganda.
Roehm and his crowd wore the rather shabby brown shirts.
It was Himmler who introduced the sleek black snazzy uniforms into the SS replete with the skull and bones and Nordic runes and occult rituals.
The Nazi were socialist monsters who believed that state was all powerful and who destroyed anything/anyone that did not agree with their viewpoint of life/politics.
Which party does that sound like today?
How so? The Waffen SS battle dress wasn’t much different from that of the Wehrmacht, except for insignia.
I think you may be confusing battle dress with dress uniforms.
The Nazis indisputably had some of the best graphic artists and designers of the 20th century and indeed of all time.
Which just goes to show that the Greeks (and many others) were way offbase in their belief that Truth, Goodness and Beauty were the same thing.
Beauty isn’t always Good, and Goodness isn’t always Beautiful. Except perhaps metaphorically. Or as God sees the world.
It’s funny how most of the top echelon Nazis were ugly as sin. They should have culled themselves from the herd for falling way short of the Aryan ideal.
Yes. Goering was as fat as the Hindenberg. Goebbels dwarfish and deformed. Himmler flabby and pale and near sighted. Hitler with his comical moustache and dark hair.
The only top Nazi who seemed to resemble the Aryan ideal, at least physically, was Reinhard Heydrich.
Co-opted and perverted just as the Lutheran State Church of Germany was co-opted and perverted. Still, though, it's a correct statement. The quality of the aesthetic was unrivaled at the time. Uniforms, propaganda posters, public works, motor vehicles and machinery of war, all beautifully and even masterfully done. It remains a difficult thing for many to even be able to look at anything from the Nazi German era abstracted from the monstrosity of Nazism to this day, let alone when I was in design school. I spent some independent study time on the Bauhaus leading up to WWII. Well, Cuban and Soviet propaganda graphics, too. I was hoping to get at just why the visuals were so compelling. Heavy use of golden section, almost religious was my conclusion. Fold that into cultural touchstones and the easily led fall right into line right along with a fair number who should have known better.
Yes,a gay romp thru Berchtesgaden!
There is no credible evidence that AH ever engaged in homosexual activity.
Although he seemed to have a high tolerance of it from Ernst Roehm and his inner circle which were in fact very homosexual.
One of my favorite movies! The play took the gay stuff to hilarious extremes!
That’s a quote from the Producers.
Roehm did wear shabby brown shirts but had planned to slim down to fit into one of those Boss uniforms himself before Hitler terminated his contract.
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