Theweleit, K Male Fantasies (1987): Problem with his thesis that fascism is connected to disgust w/ everything that is flowing (menstrual blood, “Bolshevik flood”) is that fascism adores poetry and song, which are flowing. He’s right that fascists want to be like statues though.
Using this interpretation, the dam buster raids were a devastating attack on the Nazi psyche, not their economy. If the Nazis feared being submerged by a feminine flood more than anything, then a blowing up their dams would poleaxe them.