jhmcd2 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2008 · 306 posts
bopperthijs posted Sun, 13 April 2008 at 8:16 PM
Speaking about censorship: AFAIK is "Mein Kampf" the only book in Holland that's illegal.
How far a thread can dwell...
So the following is completely OT... On one side the NAZI's wanted to restore the old German religion (more than 1300 years ago!) with the whole Walhalla and Gods like Wodan, Freia and Thor, which are still echoed in our days of the week: Wednesday, Friday and Thursday. On the other side they found sources in occultisme and their symbolism like the swastika. Allthough never proved, some people claim that the trivial race-theories of the antroposophy of Rudolf Steiner and theosophy of Mdm.Blavatsky were responsible for the horrors of the NAZI-regime and the Holocaust. If you find this unbelievable, google for the "Thule" society (or "gesellschaft") I don't think antroposofy or theosophy are responsible for it, but the NAZI's found a way to "legalize" their crimes.
Anyway, the NAZI's wanted to make their own religion and mysthiscim which had very little to do with catholicism or lutheranism, which were (and are) the two mayor religion of Germany.
About the way the NAZI's looked at art: They had very specific rules which was and wasn't allowed: everything which felt outside these rules was called "entartet", which means as much as "pervert" (not quite, but I cannot think of another translation), they even had a museum in Münich where they exposed those "entartete kunst" with paintings of Klein, Kandinsky and more German painters who were famous (and still are) in the years of the Weimar republic.
The Statues and paintings that were allowed showed gigantic, heroïc and often nude, well proportioned(!) men and women.
You see the same kind of pictures and statues (and architecture) in other dictatorial countries like the former Sovjet-union.
TBC. (of to bed)
Bopper.
-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?