Kulturkampf

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....Nazis?

The article does not in fact establish that "Nazis adored it" or anything about Nazis, this is the only relevant paragraph:

What is cuteness? In 1943, the Austrian zoologist and sometime Nazi psychologist (as well as future Nobel laureate) Konrad Lorenz proposed that behaviours that create the appearance of helplessness motivate us to care for our offspring – and that the same ­visual cues can arouse equally intense emotions when we encounter them in animals, such as kittens, and even in dolls and teddy bears. “Whenever something reminds us of a baby, from puppies to pandas, from a sock puppet to two dots with a curved line below them, it can trigger our cuteness detector,” explains professor Joshua Paul Dale, a specialist in “cute ­studies” at Tokyo’s Chuo University. “And that activates the pleasure centres of our brains.”

Lorenz devised a set of characteristics that might provoke such a reaction, including: a large head, wide-set eyes, short limbs, a soft body and wobbly movements.