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Daniel27
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While that is true, I had in mind some different examples. The first is from Encyclopaedia Britannica’s entry for what Hitler advocated the ‘New Man’ should be, and in it, there are many associations drawn with the former ideal of the ‘man of the house’ and a time before the comfort of liberalism - in effect, hardened men.
Fascists aimed to transform the ordinary man into the “new man,” a “virile” being who would put decadent bourgeoisie, cerebral Marxists, and “feminine” liberals to shame. The new man would be physically strong and morally “hard,” admiring what was forceful and vigorous and despising everything “weak” and “soft.” As Hitler described him, the new man was “slim and slender, quick like a greyhound, tough like leather, and hard like Krupp steel.” The new man was a man of the past as well as the future. Italian fascists held up the soldiers of ancient Rome as models, and Bertrand de Jouvenel praised the “brutal barons” of the Middle Ages and the original conquerors of Europe, the Franks. “Fascist man,” he wrote, was “a throwback to the warrior and property holder of yesteryear, to the type of man who was the head of a family and a clan: When this type of man ceases to win esteem and disappears, then the process of decadence begins.”
Drieu La Rochelle believed Hitlerian man to be superior to Democratic man, Marxist man, and Liberal man. “The Hitlerian,” he wrote, “is a type who rejects culture, who stands firm in the middle of sexual and alcoholic depravity and who dreams of bringing to the world a physical discipline with radical effects.” The new man was also a Darwinian “realist” who was contemptuous of “delicate” souls who refused to employ harsh military or political measures when they were required.
As for the idea of ‘traditional culture’, Hitler opposed the new ‘young person’s culture’, including aspects such as jazz and dancing. he saw it as bringing in values contrary to the idealised people of the Nazi regime. Also, in regard to the family aspect, Goebbels issued lots of propaganda about how the ideal family should operate, with a man out working and the mother taking care of the children - the father was very much idealised as the breadwinner.
I included some sources below, and what the sources + your comments remind me (very importantly) is that while Hitler did advocate for traditional values, he very much sculpted his needs to match the current situation. For example, in peace times, mothers were to stay at home, but when the war effort got desperate, women began to join the workforce. In regard to his use of religion, historians are uncertain how much we can trust on this. He certainly used religion as a way to try and appeal to the public, but other times he completely disregards it.
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/jazz-under-the-nazis/
Fascists aimed to transform the ordinary man into the “new man,” a “virile” being who would put decadent bourgeoisie, cerebral Marxists, and “feminine” liberals to shame. The new man would be physically strong and morally “hard,” admiring what was forceful and vigorous and despising everything “weak” and “soft.” As Hitler described him, the new man was “slim and slender, quick like a greyhound, tough like leather, and hard like Krupp steel.” The new man was a man of the past as well as the future. Italian fascists held up the soldiers of ancient Rome as models, and Bertrand de Jouvenel praised the “brutal barons” of the Middle Ages and the original conquerors of Europe, the Franks. “Fascist man,” he wrote, was “a throwback to the warrior and property holder of yesteryear, to the type of man who was the head of a family and a clan: When this type of man ceases to win esteem and disappears, then the process of decadence begins.”
Drieu La Rochelle believed Hitlerian man to be superior to Democratic man, Marxist man, and Liberal man. “The Hitlerian,” he wrote, “is a type who rejects culture, who stands firm in the middle of sexual and alcoholic depravity and who dreams of bringing to the world a physical discipline with radical effects.” The new man was also a Darwinian “realist” who was contemptuous of “delicate” souls who refused to employ harsh military or political measures when they were required.
As for the idea of ‘traditional culture’, Hitler opposed the new ‘young person’s culture’, including aspects such as jazz and dancing. he saw it as bringing in values contrary to the idealised people of the Nazi regime. Also, in regard to the family aspect, Goebbels issued lots of propaganda about how the ideal family should operate, with a man out working and the mother taking care of the children - the father was very much idealised as the breadwinner.
I included some sources below, and what the sources + your comments remind me (very importantly) is that while Hitler did advocate for traditional values, he very much sculpted his needs to match the current situation. For example, in peace times, mothers were to stay at home, but when the war effort got desperate, women began to join the workforce. In regard to his use of religion, historians are uncertain how much we can trust on this. He certainly used religion as a way to try and appeal to the public, but other times he completely disregards it.
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/jazz-under-the-nazis/