Heinrich Pudor wrote on methods to improve social hygiene in his book ('Naked people and the rejoicing of the future') and then ('Nude Culture'). It prescribes an austere lifestyle and nudity. Paul Zimmermann opened the Freilicht Park in Lübeck which was open to those who subscribed to principles. Richard Ungewitter wrote ('Nakedness') which sold 90,000 copies, prescribed a similar Utopian lifestyle, where everyone would be nude, eat only vegetables and abstain from alcohol and tobacco. In his Utopia, everyone was to be Germanic with blue eyes and blonde hair. Adolf Koch, a left-wing primary-school teacher, sought to use social nudity to free the people from "authority fixated conditioning which held proletarians in deference of their masters: parental authority, paternalism of the church, the mass media and organs of law and order." He used Organic-Rhythmic exercises in Berlin schools in the 1920s. In 1932 there were about 100,000 Germans involved with naturism, of which 70,000 were in Koch's schools. taught nude gymnastics to soldiers for five years, and on being forced to leave the army, he wrote (in 1924) ('Man and the Sun') which ran to 61 reprints. American writers Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau both wrote of nudity within the natural environment.
Heinrich Pudor wrote on methods to improve social hygiene in his book ('Naked people and the rejoicing of the future') and then ('Nude Culture'). It prescribes an austere lifestyle and nudity. Paul Zimmermann opened the Freilicht Park in Lübeck which was open to those who subscribed to principles. Richard Ungewitter wrote ('Nakedness') which sold 90,000 copies, prescribed a similar Utopian lifestyle where everyone would be nude, eat only vegetables and abstain from alcohol and tobacco. In his Utopia, everyone was to be Germanic with blue eyes and blonde hair. Adolf Koch, a left-wing primary-school teacher, sought to use social nudity to free the people from "authority fixated conditioning which held proletarians in deference of their masters: parental authority, paternalism of the church, the mass media and organs of law and order." He used Organic-Rhythmic exercises in Berlin schools in the 1920s. In 1932 there were about 100,000 Germans involved with naturism, of which 70,000 were in Koch's schools. taught nude gymnastics to soldiers for five years, and on being forced to leave the army, he wrote (in 1924) ('Man and the Sun') ,which ran to 61 reprints. American writers Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau both wrote of nudity within the natural environment.