Power, Aryanism, supremacy, purity of the race: key concepts that became pillar of one of the greatest regimes of the XX century, the National Socialism. Words that became history of the party and they plunged their roots into the cradle of the Germanic populations. During the writing of the work Mein Kampf, symbol of the party, Hitler took particularly inspiration from Tacito’s La Germania. This work inspired the National Socialist leader’s symbolic and irrational representation of the “Aryan man”, concept of a pure man, physically and mentally superior, completely based on the race. Such belief will bring to the ideological construction of a racial supremacy, intimately related to the Germanic population, and therefore intrinsic into the nature of the German people and into the empire that Hitler intended to create. We’ll see how the simplicity and the purity of the Germanic man related to Tacito’s work will be totally distorted, re-elaborated and exploited as a mere means of public propaganda… a reminder of how far the human madness can go.
Potere, arianesimo, supremazia, razza pura: concetti chiave che furono colonne portanti di uno dei più grandi regimi del XX secolo, il nazionalsocialismo. Parole che fecero la storia della cultura del partito, e che trovarono origine nella culla delle popolazioni germaniche. Durante il periodo di scrittura dell’opera Mein Kampf, simbolo del partito, Hitler trovò di particolare ispirazione La Germania di Tacito. Fu da quest’opera che il leader nazionalsocialista prese ispirazione per la raffigurazione simbolica e irrazionale dell’“uomo ariano”, concetto di un uomo puro, fisicamente e mentalmente superiore, basato esclusivamente sulla razza. Tale convinzione porterà ad una costruzione ideologica di una supremazia razziale intimamente legata ai popoli germanici e, dunque, alle radici della natura dello stesso popolo tedesco e dell’impero che Hitler intendeva formare. Vedremo come la semplicità e la purezza dell’uomo germanico nella visione tacitiana verranno totalmente distorte, rielaborate e utilizzate come mezzo di propaganda pubblica …. monito di ciò che la follia umana può arrivare a compiere.
Nazismo e l'antichità: l'uomo germanico tra la Germania e il Mein Kampf
BULONE, GIULIA
2022/2023
Abstract
Power, Aryanism, supremacy, purity of the race: key concepts that became pillar of one of the greatest regimes of the XX century, the National Socialism. Words that became history of the party and they plunged their roots into the cradle of the Germanic populations. During the writing of the work Mein Kampf, symbol of the party, Hitler took particularly inspiration from Tacito’s La Germania. This work inspired the National Socialist leader’s symbolic and irrational representation of the “Aryan man”, concept of a pure man, physically and mentally superior, completely based on the race. Such belief will bring to the ideological construction of a racial supremacy, intimately related to the Germanic population, and therefore intrinsic into the nature of the German people and into the empire that Hitler intended to create. We’ll see how the simplicity and the purity of the Germanic man related to Tacito’s work will be totally distorted, re-elaborated and exploited as a mere means of public propaganda… a reminder of how far the human madness can go.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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