Weltanschauung is the German word for “worldview” and simply put relates to the individual outlook of each of us in regard to the environments that we encounter not only where we live but also elsewhere that we travel. How we view life and the reasons behind the way we view things in such a way relates to the way that our separate societies have evolved. Our perception of a foreign country and its population will always be compared by us with what we know of the society in which we live. Yet who is to say that the society in which any of us lives follows the correct set of rules a world should follow. The world is too diverse and its people too locked into the geographical and natural factors that dominate their lives for every society to be exactly alike. Countries with adjacent land borders are proof that no two peoples can possibly share identical perceptions. Europe is strewn with countries that possess land borders and yet languages, dialects and a host of other differences are immediately obvious. Little wonder then that the attitude towards nudism in public is also different in different parts of the world. Nudism in Germany has become such a regular occurrence that it no longer attracts the kind of attention that it might do in the United States or even the United Kingdom.
The Germans are recognised as a bold race, daring to attain goals that others might only entertain in their fantasies and began entertaining nudism in Germany towards the end of the nineteenth century, which would have been a pretty enlightened attitude for the period. However and very curiously Hitler was opposed to nudism in Germany and considered it dangerous to the morality of his people and when in power, took measures to ensure that nudist clubs were banned. Perhaps Hitler’s odd morality issues tipped the scale in favour of more liberal thinking towards nudism in Germany after the war. Certainly there was a resurgence of interest in public nudity and today full frontal exposure on national television is accepted without condemnation.
It may be that the German population considers public nudism part of a methodology in countering perversion, or at least in reducing it by simply removing the state of naughtiness that seeing someone in the buff qualifies for elsewhere. Germany does not appear to suffer with a higher perversion rate than any other country in the world as a result of public nudism. Nor does the moral fibre of the country appear to be in need of repair maybe the Germans have discovered something that the rest of the world should consider catching up on.