Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world. The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. The torch relay--that staple of Olympic pageantry--first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after, the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain. This book offers a blend of history and sport: it includes an account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed by the American Olympic Committee. It also recounts the dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four gold-medal performances, and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei Son, with the Rising Sun of imperial Japan on his bib.--From publisher description. |
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... regime's domestic and interna- tional mobilization . It was also the occas- sion for dazzling athletic feats , including Jesse Owens's four gold - medal performances . But in this Olympics politics could not be separated from ...
... regime's domestic and interna- tional mobilization . It was also the occas- sion for dazzling athletic feats , including Jesse Owens's four gold - medal performances . But in this Olympics politics could not be separated from ...
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... regime's chief ideologue , sought to document the putative affinity between Germany and Greece by equating the Nordic Nibelungenlied saga with Homer's Iliad , and the construction methods of Greek temples to those of Gothic cathedrals ...
... regime's chief ideologue , sought to document the putative affinity between Germany and Greece by equating the Nordic Nibelungenlied saga with Homer's Iliad , and the construction methods of Greek temples to those of Gothic cathedrals ...
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... regime's " spiritual mobilization " to win the hearts and minds of the German people , more than 50 percent of whom had still not voted for the Nazi Party in the last " free " parliamentary elections of March 5 , 1933 , when the new ...
... regime's " spiritual mobilization " to win the hearts and minds of the German people , more than 50 percent of whom had still not voted for the Nazi Party in the last " free " parliamentary elections of March 5 , 1933 , when the new ...
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... regime had in any way " misused " the games for political purposes . Their cry was then taken up by some conservative journal- ists and sports historians , one of whom , Willi Knecht , argued that it was sim- ply " ignorant " for ...
... regime had in any way " misused " the games for political purposes . Their cry was then taken up by some conservative journal- ists and sports historians , one of whom , Willi Knecht , argued that it was sim- ply " ignorant " for ...
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