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 Freikörperkultur, FKK, the German word for Nudism or Naturism. Nudisme, Naturisme in French; naaktcultuur, nudisme in Dutch. 'Freikörper' in itself means: 'free body'. The culture of the free body has never been celebrated in a more artistic sense then in Germany and Scandinavia during the 1940's and 1950's. 
Although photographs of 'explicit nudity' were forbidden by most legislations throughout the whole of Europe, law enforcers often had to make an exception for nudity. The reasons for such tolerance were simple. FKK had grown to be a sort of philosophy not unlike Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "back to nature". 
In the 40's and 50's most photographers were very much aware of a second function: FKK-material was the only semi-legal way of publishing nude pictorials for a larger public. What made these publications and images palatable for the legislators was the total lack eroticism usually connected with what we to day call glamour magazines and images..
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