The Duce’s Cheerleaders and the Führer’s Vanguard: The Dynamics of a Fascist Network of Girls’ Organizations

IF 0.6 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Fascism Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI:10.1163/22116257-bja10071

Flavia Citrigno

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Abstract

Regimes in the interwar years went to great lengths to educate young girls into their ideology. Fascist Italy had a few years head start—its Accademia fascista di educazione fisica femminile [Fascist Academy of Female Physical Education] was regarded as innovative from likeminded governments of the time, including Nazi Germany, and was the object of visits and attention. This article explores the arc drawn by relationships between Italian and German girl organizations, focusing on encounters between Orvietine and Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) members. It focuses on two exemplary moments in the history of the network: the 1937 trip to Berlin by 150 students of the Orvieto Academy, and the one-month observation visit in winter 1941 by Ursel Stein, a rising star of the BDM administration. By analyzing and comparing the dynamics, rituals, and actors of the two occasions the article points out at the different roles given to girl organizations by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and raises questions concerning the agency of the members of this women network.

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战时各政权不遗余力地对年轻女孩进行意识形态教育。法西斯意大利先行一步，其法西斯女子体育教育学院（Accademia fascista di educazione fisica femminile）被当时包括纳粹德国在内的同类政府视为创新之举，并成为访问和关注的对象。本文探讨了意大利和德国女童组织之间关系的弧线，重点是奥维婷和德国女童联合会（Bund Deutscher Mädel，BDM）成员之间的交往。文章重点介绍了该网络历史上的两个典范时刻：1937 年奥维耶托学院 150 名学生的柏林之行，以及 1941 年冬季德意志妇女联合会管理部门的后起之秀乌塞尔-斯坦因为期一个月的观察访问。通过分析和比较这两次活动的动态、仪式和参与者，文章指出了纳粹德国和法西斯意大利赋予女孩组织的不同角色，并提出了有关这一妇女网络成员的代理权的问题。

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Fascism HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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0.60

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20 weeks

期刊介绍： Fascism publishes peer-reviewed (double blind) articles in English, mainly but not exclusively by both seasoned researchers and postgraduates exploring the phenomenon of fascism in a comparative context and focusing on such topics as the uniqueness and generic aspects of fascism, patterns in the causal aspects/genesis of various fascisms in political, economic, social, historical, and psychological factors, their expression in art, culture, ritual and propaganda, elements of continuity between interwar and postwar fascisms, their relationship to national and cultural crisis, revolution, modernity/modernism, political religion, totalitarianism, capitalism, communism, extremism, charismatic dictatorship, patriarchy, terrorism, fundamentalism, and other phenomena related to the rise of political and social extremism.