A estética totalitária na indumentária militar nazista: uma análise a partir do filme o triunfo da vontade de Leni Riefenstahl

Abstract

This work is based on a study that seeks to understand how the totalitarian aesthetic was implemented in Nazi military clothing, and how it was used as an allegorical communication tool in the film The Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. In this search, we tried to analyze the construction of allegorical images carried out by Nazi officers, where the importance of the studied clothing was emphasized as a symbol of incentive and discrimination of the Nazi ideal, and how its use enabled the structuring of individuals into mass subjects, from their transformation into officers, in order to legitimize the political ideals intrinsic to the Third Reich and – beyond it – to totalitarian regimes. From the proposed reflections and discussions, it was possible to understand the elements that potentiated this authoritarian escalation in Germany, making it possible to answer questions about the rise of this ideology, and how cinema techniques and fashion concepts helped in the communication of these ideals for a conversion of the German people.