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title: "The cult of the body, the masses and the new man"
date: 2017-11-14
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:10:31+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-09T08:56:11Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/cult-of-body-masses-the-new-man-weimar-context-en/"
description: "During the interwar years, sport became a classless mass phenomenon in Germany. Yet the idealized “neuer Mensch”, or “new man”, already showed the first signs of later Nazi ideology."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Header_Koerperkult_Weimarer_Republik.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The cult of the body, the masses and the new man