The Healthy Appeal Of National Socialism:
Pictures From The Day Of German Art Festival, München, July 1939
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The modernist, avant-garde cultural movements sharply reject traditional aesthetic standards. Contemporary painters appear to be especially fascinated by ugliness, composers obsessed by atonal dissonance, poets and playwrights preoccupied with decadence and the madness of big city life. They seem to find beauty in the loss of equilibrium and symmetry, and in emphasising the torments of the individual soul. Moreover, their aesthetic revolt against normality and good health is linked to a general movement of social and political revolution. Dadaism, with its doctrine of anti art -- Art Is Shit -- reflects this mad dream for chaos and provocation against healthy values. Dadaism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism and abstractism all degrade art to the level of primitive African tribes or oceanic natives, and are propagated by decadent, subversive, immoral and degenerate left wing lunatics. Indeed, the figure forms of expressionism are often quite similar to the scribblings of mentally deficient inmates of asylums. The pictures here are from the spectacular National Socialist pageant called the Day Of German Art held in München on the weekend of 14-16 July, 1939. The festival extolled the roots of Germanic culture down through the ages and the original German character, and reflect the power and grandeur of the Third Reich.
The Germanic tribes were brave, warlike, generous and noble minded; their pagan religion was based on the natural cycle and worship of the Sun as a symbol of ever renewed life -- the meaning of the Swastika. Their cardinal virtues included: loyalty to the family and clan, heroism in the face of death, readiness for battle, and closeness to the soil. These warrior values of the Nordic spirit find symbolic expression in the Nibelungenlied and other sagas; in the cult of Valhalla, and in the Viking ships which expressed the fearlessness, love of adventure, of booty, and the freedom residing in the ancestral spirit. These Nordic sagas are in fact the religion of the Germanic people and a reminder of its unbroken racial continuity and strength.
 Lining the route of the pageant of National Socialist art and culture are soldiers .....  ..... and children. Images like this of healthy Germans always enraged Churchill, who planned the destroy the innocent people of England's industrial competitor.  The crowd hopes for a glance of Adolf Hitler!  The happy Folk.
 The National Socialist Eagle adorns München's central railway station on the eve of the Day Of German Art  A symbol of the German nation cleansed of decadent influence; British, French, and American war criminals were planning to cleanse Germany of Germans  Decorative flags festooned throughout München  The central railway station again  The Angel Of Freedom Fountain  A beautiful weekend! Let's forget the filthy British hate propaganda for a day!  Decorating München's principal buildings  Decorating München's principal buildings  Adolf Hitler's official residence in München's Prinzregentenplatz  The Nymphenburg Palace, the setting for a lavish reception for the national and international press on Friday 14-July-1939  Costumed girls before joining the Pageant  Costumed girls before joining the Pageant  Costumed girls before joining the Pageant  Professional dance troupes  Pictures like this sickened Churchill and the Jewish war criminal Roosevelt  Professional dance troupes  Tea on the restaurant terrace of the House Of German Art .....  ..... with the English Garden in the background  Forever devoted to The Leader!
 2000 years of German culture  A golden bust of Pallas Athena celebrating Germany's classical heritage  Symbolisng Blood And Soil  Lavish tableaux glorifying military, cultural and mythological episodes in Germanic history  Lavish tableaux glorifying military, cultural and mythological episodes in Germanic history  In front of the Führerbau and the Ehrentempel  In front of the Führerbau and the Ehrentempel  German Knights on crusade  German Knights on crusade  German Knights on crusade  The German Eagle, symbolising steadfast focus on the 1000 year National Socialist Reich  A representation of Father Rhine, celebrating the Third Reich's recovery of the Rhineland in 1936  National Socialist standards paraded past the Ehrentempel  Detachments of S.A., Storm Troop .....  and S.S., Protection Echelon troops from all over Germany took part in the procession  Over one million people watched over 6000 costumed participants  Adolf Hitler
 Rudolf Heß .....  and Adolf Hitler arriving at the viewing stand in the Odeonplatz in the centre of München on Sunday afternoon, 16-July-1939  Dino Alfieri, Adolf Hitler and host Adolf Wagner, Gauleiter Of Bavaria  Albert Speer with Gerdy Troost  Party leaders  Robert Ley and his wife on the viewing stand
 Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels  The House Of German Art, one of National Socialism's first official buildings, erected 1933  The Guard Of Honour outside the House Of German Art  Guests arriving for the opening of the Annual Exhibition, Sunday morning, 16-July-1939  Adolf Hitler inspects the Guard Of Honour  August von Finck, Curator of the House Of German Art  Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, the official host of the Day Of German Art and patron to the amateur film society responsible for these images  A portion of the crowd entering the House Of German Art  Adolf Hitler And Heinrich Himmler arriving at München's Kongresshalle  The arrival of Doctor Robert Ley and his wife  Arrival of important guests  Adolf Hitler's arrival at the House Of German Art  Adolf Hitler's arrival at the House Of German Art  Adolf Hitler's arrival at the House Of German Art  Freiherr von Finck salutes Adolf Hitler  Adolf Hitler officiating at the Arts Festival  Adolf Hitler officiating at the Arts Festival  Adolf Hitler, Gauleiter Adolf Wagner and Heinrich Himmler  Adolf Wagner, Adolf Hitler, von Finck and Rudolf Heß inside the House Of German Art  Adolf Hitler giving his official address at the opening of the exhibition  Party leaders  Dino Alfieri, Gerdy Troost, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler touring the House Of German Art  An Italian guest  Adolf Hitler admiring Galatea by Fritz Klimsch  Leaving the House Of German Art for the viewing stand  The Leader salutes the people  Julius Streicher leaving the exhibition  Senior Airforce generals leaving the exhibition  Outside the House Of German Art
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