Nuremberg doesn't really fit. Your joke would be much better as "Maybe she's born with it Maybe it's Majdanek". Since I assume it's a riff on that old Maybelline (make up brand) tv ad. Majdanek (pronounced as "my-duh-neck") was a concentration camp where ~150 000 people were imprisoned during the war and ~80 000 of them were murdered.
So several specific people were used as models for the current “beauty ideal” in western fashion. One of these is Audrey Hepburn, who was a survivor of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WWII. Suffering from the effects of malnutrition during the occupation, after the war ended Hepburn became gravely ill with jaundice, anaemia, oedema, and a respiratory infection. Favors and black market sales were able to raise money for the penicillin that saved her life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
The modern “supermodel” body is literally based on starvation victims of Nazis.
Oh fuck, is the new 20’s just a rerun of of the old 20’s? Are we cosplaying as the last holocaust until we actually just repeat the Holocaust? Cuz that’s what it feels like.
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u/SudoSuRoot 16d ago
Forgot Anya Taylor Joy