British football players Nazi saluting as a form of hospitality in a friendly football match. Berlin, May 14th 1938

Stukas (1941)

Stukas is a 1941 German film, directed by Karl Ritter and starring Carl Raddatz, which follows three squadrons of Luftwaffe dive-bomber (Stuka) flyers.
The plot largely alternates between combat and lulls in combat, with the exception of two narratives. In one, three of the flyers who have been shot down behind enemy lines make their way back to the German position, finally succeeding after one of them manages to talk a French unit into capitulating. In the other, a shell-shocked flyer whose doctor has prescribed "a profound experience" recovers the will to fight when he hears "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" during a performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival.

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Jutta Rüdiger on Sports, Discipline and Self Mastery

"Athletic training should not only serve their health, but also be a school that trains the girls in discipline and mastery of their bodies. Even the Jungmädel should learn through play to put themselves second and place themselves in the service of the community. Each German girl is trained in the basics of sports. If she proves particularly capable, a girl may choose the sport for which she is gifted, and after completing her other duties, continue to develop her skills in the Reich Federation for Physical Fitness, under the leadership of the Hitler Youth. We do not want to produce girls who are romantic dreamers, able only to paint, sing, and dance, or who have only a narrow view of life..."

Rüdiger, J. (1938). Die Aufgaben des BDM. im Arbeitsjahr. Das Deutsche Mädel.

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The Breton nation: An Ahnenerbe report

"It is young and still not very organized, but noteworthy in the swiftness of its growth. Two examples of this: the number of readers of the nationalist press grew in two years 1939-40 from 10,000 to 100,000. The Breton language, in 1925 still a despised dialect, is 15 years later recognized as a language of the civilized world.. People from all social classes, in particular the intellectual petit bourgeois, the merchants and some of the peasantry, including many of the country clergymen, participate in the movement. Without interruption the Bretons have preserved the Celtic tradition, which goes back to the time when the Celtic and German peoples had nearly identical cultures. Breton folk were able to evade the influence of the western civilization.. One of the foundations for the Breton resurrection is the study of the origin of the people and its life: prehistory, folklore, folk art, racial science."

Mordrel, O. (1941). Report on the Cultural Situation of Brittany

L'Heure Bretonne ("The Breton Times") was a Breton nationalist weekly newspaper which was published from June 1940 to June 1944.

Ahnenerbe Report: on the Separatist Movement in Brittany

"When German observers travel to Brittany, they must never forget that Brittany has been subjugated by the power of the French kings for more than 400 years and was annexed more than 150 years ago. As a result there is naturally a French veneer, which however must not deceive. Brittany will not uncover itself just like that. There is time to penetrate her nature and her soul. As with all oppressed peoples, she has obscured her true face. In June 1940 a vast majority of Bretons were ready to dedicate themselves to separatism. The opportunity created the faith. After the faith dwindled, it was those in the circle of the “Franskiljons” who came to the forefront. But the true Breton people, as hard as steel, are rising up irresistibly and will wait for its hour as long as is necessary."

1. Mordrel, O. (1941). Report on the Cultural Situation of Brittany
2. Photo: National Clothing of the Bretons

Mordrel, O. (1941). Report on the Cultural Situation of Brittany

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