The Body at the Service of Ideology: Physical and Sports Education in European Fascisms
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2019-03-06
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Universidad Antonio Nariño
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http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
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ISSN: 2346-0911
ISSN: 0123-0670
DOI: 10.54104/papeles.v11n21
Ref: PAPELES; Vol. 11 No. 21 (2019); 78-87
ISSN: 0123-0670
DOI: 10.54104/papeles.v11n21
Ref: PAPELES; Vol. 11 No. 21 (2019); 78-87
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This article aims to analyze how the fascist youth organizations used the youth body as a political symbol. Through the indoctrination of Hitler Jugend, the Opera Nazionale Balilla and Frente de Juventudes managed to get a social base of young people used as a symbol of loyalty to fascist political project. This text also aims to open new interpretive paths in the body’s themes - establishing it as a legitimate object of historical research.