Olympic roll

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Schildkröt doll Inge (1950) with the Olympic roll

The Olympic roll is a woman's hairstyle that came into fashion in Germany in the mid-1930s. The hair is pulled long at the nape of the neck and pinned up into an outer roll. It is reminiscent of the hairstyle of Venus de Milo . Some women wore the Olympic scroll with a pony twisted into little curls.

The shape of the Olympic scroll stems from a new enthusiasm for topics of antiquity , which flared up in Europe after the discovery of Tutankhamun's grave ; the name goes back to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

The Schildkröt doll Inge , which was first created for the Olympic Games in 1936, wears this hairstyle: “With her blue eyes, blonde hair and the legendary 'Olympic scroll' she corresponded to what Hitler wanted, and she was made for that ' Millennial Empire '. "

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Individual evidence

  1. Gardy-Käthe Ruder: Holocaust in the memory of a doll: en route on the traces of life by and with Inge Auerbacher . German Wiss.-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 978-3-935176-46-0