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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ADVANCE "It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer." -- Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
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Olympic Games, Winter Games, United States, Los Angeles, New York Times, Berlin Olympics, Olympic Committee, Nazi Germany, Nazi Olympics, World War, Helsingin Sanomat, Foreign Office, Summer Games, Het Volk, Manchester Guardian, Suomen Urheilulehti, Dagens Nytheter, Tokyo Asahi, Carl Diem, Sports Association, Suomen Sosialidemokraatti, Tokyo Olympics, Jesse Owens, Olympic Village, African Americans New!
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- The Nazi Olympics (Sport and Society) by Richard D. Mandell on 9 pages
- The Story of Worker Sport by Arnd Kruger on 8 pages
- Sport and International Politics: Impact of Facism and Communism on Sport by Pierre Arnaud on 4 pages
- Sports and the American Jew (Sports and Entertainment) by Steven A. Riess on page 64, page 69, and Back Matter
- While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy by Arthur D. Morse on page 44, page 64, and Back Matter
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