One, doubtlessly aversive photo in the book is entitled Greeting the Light, and shows six nearly-naked rigid nazi men on a beach, doing something, some kind of `stretching´ exercises, I suppose.Not only was it popular, it was approved by the Nazi party, which saw a positive body image as a means of encouraging the `health of the race´. If that also happened to serve the voyeuristic desires of readers, then that was accepted, researcher Christian Adam says.
Hans Surén's illustrated work Humans and Sun, was, according to DerSpiege, a bestseller during the Nazi era.
Now this repulsiving material is bublished in web by DerSpiegel:
Photo Gallery, by DerSpiegel, by Naked Nazis and a Surprise Bestseller.Ugh.
Btw.
Former, antifascistical Finnish President Urho Kekkonen is to be the subject of a new opera. The production is provisionally slated to premiere at the Ilmajoki Music Festival in the summer of 2013.
Kekkonen, was first a Centre Party politician but turned forward to the left-wing.
Especially after the Continuation War, Kekkonen concentrated on defining how the nation can ptevt from facism and natzism: he hated nazies and teh rigid cruelty of those ideolgies, but saw as the only political option for Finland. It was a peacefull way, wich go on outside of crices by superpowers.
In time his views on e.g. Finnish democracy, patriotism, and neutrality became generally accepted in Finland. Kekkonen’s political goal was to protect Finland’s independence and national unity. In his politics, morality was subordinate to the Machiavellian `best interest of the nation´.
He was Finland’s president from 1956 until 1981. His lengthy spell in office during the Cold War was partly due to excellent personal relationships with Soviet leaders,
I hope that Finland does not lose the human bequest of Kekkonen.
Post scriptum
I am watching on tv a document The Unknown Face of Finland in War, 1995 TV documentary, by Lisa Hovinheimo. Document the firs named The paradice of concentration camps (1994). The editorial staff from TV2, Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, made documentaries with professor Pertti Virtaranta about Fenno-Ugric people in Russia 1941 - 1944. Documentaries describe `scenery´: concentrationed camp prisoners, executions, suicides by those ordinary Russians ... and film tells what happened to young women prisoners, etc.
Professor Virtaranta makes interviews, and reports his views and experiences.
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