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.

Geneva – Parc des Bastions, International Monument to the Reformation, Four Giants of the Reformation

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

#Art: Farewell of a Don Cossack.

The Communist Hell

30.7.1941: "Hell can be no worse than this 'Soviet paradise'. There is no hope of salvation. What Bolshevism has done to humanity is a sin against God, a crime one cannot begin to understand. Every German who formerly thought Bolshevism was a worthy idea and who threatened us National Socialists with death and bloodshed only because we didn’t believe in this nonsense should be ashamed! We were right! We are all shaken and moved as we face this misery, this suffering, this hopeless Bolshevist life. They stole everything from these people except the very air they breathed. The land they inherited from their fathers became a collective, the property of the state, and they became slaves worse than those of the darkest Middle Ages in Germany."

1. Diewerge, W. (1941). Deutsche Soldaten sehen die Sowjet-Union. Letter of Lieutenant Otto of Deißenroth to Kemmel in Altenau Military Post Number 12 827D
2. Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser, O. (1942). Troops Entering Riga

recommended by a holy SSPX Priest, liturgical meditations for every day of the year

Mora, S. and Zwierniak P., (1945). Map of the Soviet Concentration Camps (Gulags) in Russia.

D III 88 (1939)

German Language with English Subtitles

D III 88 is a 1939 German drama film directed by Herbert Maisch and Hans Bertram and starring Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke and Heinz Welzel. It was made as a propaganda film with the support of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, and was the last of a series of Nazi aviation films to be made before the outbreak of World War II. It was one of the most commercially successful films released during the Nazi era. It was praised by Joseph Goebbels as "an irreproachable film of national destiny". The title, referring to the serial number of the Albatros D.III flown by one of the characters in the World War I, was an attempt to re-inforce the propaganda link between the modern Luftwaffe and that of World War I.

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Early photo from the German Bundeswehr

Northern Myths, Modern Identities
The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800

This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities.

France yesterday and today