Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl. I think this video is the perfect example of, “A highly technological romanticism” that was discussed in Martin Pernick’s article (33). Not only are these humans depicted in the video attractive—considering the era—they are being active. The combination of beauty and fitness equaled healthy and replaced the older romantic concepts of beauty.

     This video seems to support the following quote from Irving Fisher, “Careful propaganda was needed to unconsciously favorably modify the individual taste . . . in mate-choosing. And Albert Wiggam agreed, “If their ideals of human beauty are properly trained, young people will, unconsciously reject the ugly and will fill their homes with beautiful wives and handsome husbands” (Pernick 32).

Domalski, Josh