In 1926: living at the edge of time - Monoskop

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right kind of nourishment for people, especially the young. Shop windows
and billboards use the basest means in order to attract the attention
of the masses ... This sultry, sensual atmosphere leads to ideas
and stimulation at a time when a boy ought not yet to have an understanding
of such things . . . Who will be surprised, then, that even
among young people syphilis is beginning to find victims? And isn't it
distressing to see how many physically weak and mentally corrupt
young men receive their sexual initiation from a big-city whore? Nohe
who wishes to attack prostitution must first of all strive to abolish
the mental predisposition toward it. He must clear away the filth of the
moral contamination that emanates from the "culture" of our big cities,
and must do so ruthlessly and unhesitatingly. (Hitler, 278-279)
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Americans in Paris, Bars, Dancing, Elevators, Employees, Endurance,
Gomina, Mountaineering, Murder, Revue, Stars, Action vs. Impotence,
Authenticity vs. Artificiality, Individuality vs. Collectivity, Present vs.
Past, Sobriety vs. Exuberance, Action = Impotence (Tragedy), Immanence
= Transcendence (Death)
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia, "Text from Critica Fascista" (1926). Stanford Italian
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Chronik 1926: Tag fur Tag in Wort und Bild. Dortmund, 1985.
David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film. New York, 1990.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1926). Munich, 1941.
Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, and Hans Helmut Prinzler, eds., Geschichte
des deutschen Films. Stuttgart, 1993.
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