Sparta and the Nazis
The Ancients
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Was It the Ancient Spartan Link in All This?
The ancient spartan link in all this? Yes. I think that was a big part of it. And education to toughness. When we talk about the agoga, all of these depictions in in xenophon or plutarch, you know, boys running round bare fort and having their vitals gnawed by foxes. It's promoting an ideal of being able to deal with any pain,. which i guess then translates well if you put it into a military context. Particularly as they got older tet the training became more and more militarized, in a sense.
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