Nudism, Health, And Modernity: The Natural Cure As Proposed by the German Physical Culture Movement 1900-1914.

By Nineteenth-Century Prose

Release Date: 1998-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

Description

To overcome degeneration the German Regeneration-Physical Culture movement called for a revival of the body in an over-intellectual German Kultur. Programs of "rational self-cultivation" and exposure of the body to fresh air and sunlight would effect a return to health and the resurrection of a long-dormant Germanic racial type. Essentially a program of positive, non-coercive racial hygiene, the movement emphasized strength and beauty as the qualities sought in regenerate Germans. Degeneration--Regeneration

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