This section explores male bonding as it was perceived by German
Nationalists prior to World War II. As Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
sized power, specific forms of male bonding were promoted as a
matter of patriotism. Their beliefs about the nature of
masculinity are presented here. [Fraternities] try to prevent
cliques from occurring or, at least, kind of mix people around
so that they don’t clique as much, because it is evident that
cliques are dangerous. (Jack B. Dalton) You want to solve the
problems of fraternities; bring women into it. That way the guys
can’t carry on trying to beat themselves up, because that part
of them is not possible or appreciated. (The World is Mine) The
third model of male bonding has a more disturbing past. The
männerbünde was a social movement that developed in Germany at
the turn of the 20th century. This movement, probably, provides
the worst case scenario of male bonding. The männerbünde ideal
developed out of the German nationalist movement, and its
grounding arose from Fried