German Dolls

German Dolls

Is it true the proportions for barbie were based on the proportions of eva braun?

because the woman who got the idea for barbie got the idea from a german propaganda doll showing the ideal aryan features?

Where do you kids come up with this stuff????
Where did you hear this?

1. Ruth Handler creator of Barbie, was an American, born and raised in Denver, Colorado, USA, not German.
2. Ruth Handler's parents were POLISH JEWS who had immigrated around the turn of the century.
3. Neither Ruth Handler or her Polish Jewish parents ever saw Hitler, Eva Braun, or a Nazi propaganda doll showing the ideal aryan features.
4. Ruth Handler made Barbie 1959/60 --- Hitler and Eva Braun had long been dead by then.
5. Anyway, no one knew who Eva Braun was when she was alive in the 1940s, even the Germans, and no one cared when she died, not even the Germans.
Fact ; The German public was wholly unaware of Braun until after her death.
6. In the late 1950s in Germany there was a news tabloid, the Bild-Zeitung, that had adult based cartoons, much like the adult based cartoons one would find in a Playboy magazine in the late 1950s. The main character was a dirty-girl, a floozy, a hussy if you will, called Bild Lilli ---again, very much like Playboy and Hustlers "Little Annie Fannie" or "Wicked Wanda". Someone thought it would be funny to make her into a doll .... a doll for adult men, and given as a dirty joke.
7. Ruth Handler had already been working on a doll for Barbie when she saw a Bild Lilli and it gave her an idea.
8. With the German Criminal Code addition in the 1940s, the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a, no German with a brain even thought about saying the word "aryan" outloud.
9. Barbie's measurements were not only improbable, but impossible --- the exaggerated measurements were used so the beautifully expensive dresses she wore would be filled out properly
10. Eva Braun was an obscure teenager, with a man older than her father who had questionable sexual tastes, she attempted suicide twice during their early relationship that we know of, her cousin reported her to be ".... the unhappiest woman I have ever met," , she was not tall (Barbie was 5'"9) nor particularly blonde, her hair was bleached, her breasts were small. Not very "aryan like", not that anyone would know. She died in obscurity -- even her body is gone. It is like she never existed.

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