The supremacy of the Global Fascist Superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention. Superman Supreme explores the use of the image of the male body for this purpose in European, American and Asian Fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved. Sport was an important part of Fascist socialization. The reasons are not hard to find. War, the essence of Fascism, demands physical fitness and sport helps promote this fitness.
Competitive sport can help develop attitudes of aggression and aggression is essential in war.
This was carried out in the name of the welfare of the greater German nation through the politicization of exercise in order to strengthen the male body in readiness for war. This essay investigates this ideology in its historical context and shows how it reflected gender and class characteristics and drew on Darwinian theory. The study of Fascism in Bulgaria between 1920s and 1944 is given to different ideological interpretations, and the complex cultural, political and economic links with Germany and Italy. This essay explores the notion of the Superman as a dual metaphor for the Political athlete, and for the body as a Politicum in the form of three interrelated arguments. These concern the ideological preoccupation of Bulgaria's Fascist sport, its subjugation to and departures from German Fascist sports doctrine, and the socio-anthropological premises for the emergence of the Superman.