Strength, Honor, & Fraternity
Leon Degrelle was the head of a Belgian militant monarchist and anticommunist Parti Rexiste. Following German occupation of Belgium, Degrelle and his party loyalist enlisted in the Wehrmacht-organized Walloon Legion and fought on the eastern front during World War 2. He was a highly decorated soldier due to his ferocity and extreme bravery.
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Following his participation in the Dresden chapter of the 1848 revolutions – a populist affair with proto-National Socialist characteristics – Richard Wagner ruminates on the concurrent role of art with social upheavel. The piece encompasses a brief history of European art with particular focus on the triumphs of the Greeks, yet their downfall taking place for reasons concurrent to efforts in Wagner’s time as today to create a stronger, a freer, and a more idealized society. Wagner’s passages invoking the downfall of art to commerce and notoriety demonstrate an extreme prescience to our struggles today as do his prescriptions to remedy in returning to Nature and Identity as the progenitors of true art.
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Eugen Sandow, a Prussian emigrant first to England and then to New York, is considered to be the Father of Modern Bodybuilding. Something of a positive deviant from the main of Victorian and European Strongman culture, Sandow was among the first known to stress the value of hypertrophy in building a chiselled physique.
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