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Behind the Bastards
Herzog, a historian, wrote about the widespread thinking amongst postwar leftists. She described the view that sexual repression was not just a characteristic of fascism, but its cause.
Historian Dagmar Herzog, who wrote that book Sex After Fascism, that again, if you're going to read one book on sex and Nazism, that's the one, describes how absolutely widespread this thinking is amo...
— Episode: Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ev...
Episode: Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do
Herzog, a historian, wrote about the widespread thinking amongst postwar leftists. She described the view that sexual repression was not just a characteristic of fascism, but its cause.
Historian Dagmar Herzog, who wrote that book Sex After Fascism, that again, if you're going to read one book on sex and Nazism, that's the one, describes how absolutely widespread this thinking is among postwar leftists.
It would be wrong to hold the view that all of what happened in Auschwitz was typically German. It was typical for a society that suppresses sexuality.
Brutality and the lust for destruction become substitutes for bodily pleasure.
In the fascist rebellion, the energies of inhibited sexuality formed into genocide.
Episode: Part Two: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany
The book discussed how divorce was legalized in Germany for the first time in 1938 due to emotional incompatibility.
Sex After Fascism, which is an amazing book, very well worth reading, Dagmar Herzog writes, other grounds for divorce could be found in failure to engage in sexual intercourse and thereby fulfill one's marital duties, in the use of contraception, and in childlessness.
