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The Nazi Olympics - Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s (Hardcover, Rev)
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The Nazi Olympics - Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s (Hardcover, Rev)
Series: Sport and Society
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The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both
Hitler's Third Reich and international sporting competition. This
volume gathers original essays by modern scholars from the Games'
most prominent participating countries and lays out the
issues--sporting as well as political--Surrounding individual
nations' involvement. The Nazi Olympics opens with an analysis of
Germany's preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi
regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler's racist
ideals and expansionist ambitions. Essays follow on the United
States, Great Britain, and France--three first-class Olympian
nations with misgivings about participation--as well as German ally
Italy and future ally Japan. Other essays examine the issues at
stake in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands,
which opposed Hitler's politics, despite embodying his Aryan ideal.
Challenging the view of sport as a trivial pursuit, this collection
reveals exactly how high the political stakes were in 1936 and how
the Nazi Olympics distilled many of the critical geopolitical
issues of the time into a contest that was anything but trivial.
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