Then again, so did the USIA after World War II in their efforts to “re-educate” former Nazis.
See, e.g. p.77 here:
books.google.de/books?id=UcDWB…
That’s because whiteness was portrayed as the norm.
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And that something *is* linked to the Nazis as well.
It’s race, and racism. The idea that blonde and white and female equals pure.
But let’s address the obvious differences:
They are revered and needed as, and reduced to be one thing only: mothers. The state was men, the household for women.
jstor.org/stable/3173289 and
jstor.org/stable/4397988)
But we can certainly look back in history to try and understand how it could happen.
@BobrowStrain wrote "White Bread," a book that includes more on post-WWII ads featuring children (as in the image above): npr.org/sections/thesa…
(If your read German, his war diary is insightful: deutschlandfunkkultur.de/erich-kaestner…).
So much for now.