The Third Reich Opposed Christianity’s “Mortification of the Flesh”

Renegade Editor’s Note: This was posted as a comment by NS Arts on a recent show. This viewpoint is in stark contrast to the Christian “right wingers” today who want to see White women come under a version of shariah law.


Taking a stand against certain art critics who had expressed offense at the proliferation of nudes in official art since 1933, Das Schwarze Korps attacked these Christian and Jewish hypocrites. Nudity had been banished from art as from life by “foreign doctrines” that had “torn our country apart,” to the point that “many Germans no longer know what is honest and what is not”: 

“The pure and the beautiful have never been a sin in the eyes of the German people. Just as the Greeks knew how to represent the harmoniousness of the Nordic body, the duty of our art is to represent the ideals of the German people in sculpture and painting. We vigorously reject the prudishness that helped to destroy in our people the instinct for the noble and the beautiful in our bodies. Here again, we should look to the Greeks, who knew how to cultivate biological selection among their people through athletic contests held in the nude during the Olympic Games, which encouraged racial selection. “[1]

The SS publication firmly condemned “morality foreign to the race” (artfremde Moral), deploring an acculturation that had, over the centuries, alienated the Nordic race from its roots and its nature. The contamination was everywhere:

“Even the healthiest among us is haunted by this centuries-long permeation, by an education that has spanned multiple generations. A shame of being truly sincere towards our bodies inhabits us. . . . This is why the Greek concept of the beautiful and the good as a force that preserves and governs the world is also our ideal of life . . . as opposed to medieval obscurantism.”[2]

The aesthetic and ethical legitimacy of the Greek forebear dispelled any shame: followers of Johann Joachim Winckelmann should be taken at their word! If the Bildungsbürgertum, Germany’s cultivated bourgeoisie, were swooning before marble nudes carved by the Greeks, the Greek nude should also be taken as a practical imperative, not merely a scholarly one. A biological one, as well, for Judeo-Christian culture was deadly: this “mortification of the flesh is a total destruction of . . . all vital forces.”[3]

[1] “Ist das Nacktkultur?” Das Schwarze Korps, Apr. 24, 1935, p. 12.
[2] Ibid
[3] “Verwirrung im Blut,” II. “Artfremde Moral,” Das Schwarze Korps, June 13, 1939,
booklet 24, p. 13.

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