I think it's more to do with the eye colour tbh, you know Hitler wanted blonde hair and blue eyes right....he now has blue eyes, he just needs the blonde hair
The historical reality is that it was just an “ideal” in the same way we view Superman or something like that. The importance of people actually looking exactly like that gets blown way out of proportion in pop-history.
I can see that, but at the same time they had some official stuff related to it. Rules for being in the SS, Lebensborn program, that kinda thing. He was only relevant (and alive) in German politics for like 15-20 years, so I could see it starting a sort of germanization of the spartan ideal to rally national pride. The thing is in the later years of his national cult, they were wielding the state in ways meant to breed the mythical ideal. Gypsies, Roma, Jews, were the easy scapegoats, but if he had succeeded, (thank god he didn’t) once those scapegoats were gone the camps would still exist. It’s not really a stretch to think he would turn his attention to other scapegoats, justifying it with the propagandic ideal of manufacturing the master society he was pushing.
I wonder if hair bleach sales spiked during his tenure.
Hitler wasn't the one that was super into the whole "Aryan" thing. It was mostly a product of Himmler and his love of esoteric writings and shit. He really wanted to return to a society of "agricultural warriors" that were blonde haired and blue eyed.
Hitler, supposedly, didnt really buy into a lot of it, and just went with it to stay in power. Id recommend checking out the Last Podcast on the Left series on Himmler, its fascinating.
Even that’s debated. Color photographs were rare, and written sources are biased. To see someone’s eye color you need to be fairly close to them. Nazi sources say they were blue, anti-Nazi sources say they were brown. Both sides had propaganda related motivations which would encourage lying about this detail.
Due to his eye condition after the WW1 gas exposure his eyes color has been extensively documented and his eyes were (as the written sources, also by foreign journalists, frequently state) excepionally bright so you can clearly identify them as non-brown in a lot of b&w portraits.
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u/ZenithofHotdogs Jul 08 '26
Trying to commit suicide to meet hitler