The German Image and the nazi Gimmick in Wrestling

Toward the folklore of wrestling

[This is part of a work on the folklore of professional wrestling. It is also related to the work that will be called OUR GERMANIC HERITAGE. Some of the wrestlers who used the Nazi gimmick were not even Germans. Anyway, it’s a matter of folklore.]

The story of the German image in American culture is a complex one, to be sure. Some of this stems from the …