Virtuous Vs Non-Virtuous Sunbathing

Paul Johnson writes: “Even the sunbathing movement, under the impulse of Aryan and Nordic symbols, acquired an anti-Semitic flavour. Indeed in 1920s Germany there were two distinct types of nudism: ‘Jewish’ nudism, symbolized by the black dancer Josephine Baker, which was heterosexual, commercial, cosmopolitan, erotic and immoral; and anti-Semitic nudism, which was German, Volkisch, Nordic, non-sexual (sometimes homosexual), pure and virtuous.”