edited by Anrd Krüger and William Murray
contributions by Lars-Olof Welander, Matti Goksøyr, Jørn Hansen, André Swijtink, Anrd Krüger, Richard Holt, William Murray, Gigliola Gori, Tetsuo Nakamura and Leena Laine
epilogue by Anrd Krüger
introduction by William Murray
University of Illinois Press, 2003
eISBN: 978-0-252-09164-3 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02815-1
Library of Congress Classification GV722 1936.N39 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.48

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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. The Nazi Olympics gathers essays by modern scholars from prominent participating countries and lays out the issues--sporting as well as political--surrounding the involvement of individual nations. 


The volume 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--top-tier Olympian nations with misgivings about participation--as well as Germany's future Axis partners Italy and Japan. Other contributions examine the issues involved for Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Throughout, the authors reveal the high political stakes surrounding the Games and how the Nazi Olympics distilled critical geopolitical issues of the time into a spectacle of sport.



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