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Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games

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Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games

This â€œstartlingly good and vividly illuminating bookâ€ sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator).
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For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitlerâ€™s Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.
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Country	USA
Author	Anton Rippon
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781781597385
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pen & Sword Military
Manufacturer	Pen & Sword Military
NumberOfPages	220
PublicationDate	2006-09-15
Publisher	Pen & Sword Military
ReleaseDate	2019-02-20
Studio	Pen & Sword Military

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