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with Grecian classical ideals of physical, intellectual, and noble spiritual beauty,
"What makes the Greek ideal of beauty immortal”, says Hitler, “is the wonderful combination of the most glorious physical beauty with a brilliant mind and the noblest soul."84
Hitler yearns for Grecian immortal beauty in its threefold glorious endowments. If sublime Helen is the foremost symbol of immortal Grecian glorious physical beauty, then Margareta is the primordial symbol of the brilliant mind and noble soul of German Classicism’s noble spiritual beauty, and of the infinite strivings of German Romanticism, the era of Goethe, and his Faust. Both emblemize the eternal feminine that draws mortals on high and low as the wise elders foresaw once they saw Helen promenading along the Wall. Golden-haired Margareta emblemizes and fulfills Germany’s radiant ideology of a new classical dawn. She is also the spirit and genius of German Romanticism whose infinite strivings illumines a Neo-classical utopian Germany. She emblemizes the past glory of Goethe’s genius and intellect, and she will be the future glory of Nazi Germany inspired in the monumental arts and glories of ancient Greece. Her intellectual and noble beauty, by logical consequence, shall also manifest itself in the beauty of body and form 3⁄4 so radiantly manifested once upon a time in Helen of Troy, and in his beautiful golden-haired maiden, Stefanie,
84 Hitler, Adolf and Johnson, Alvin. Mein Kampf, Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. 614.
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