Article: Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon -- Aryan Fascism.(Brief Article)

Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon -- Aryan Fascism. J. A. Mangan, editor. Frank Cass. [pounds]45.00/US$45.00. 176 pages. ISBN 0-7146-4954-6. This volume is part of Cass's 'Sport in the Global Society' series which analyses the now vital role of sport in the world. In the 1930s sport was made into the religion of fascist and communist regimes. (In communist countries it retained that position into the 1990s.) Nazi Germany took this even further with its racial emphasis on Germans as the super-race. The athletic young male was the superman, the icon of Nazism and ...

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