The Nazi Olympics : sport, politics, and appeasement in the 1930s
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Bibliographic Information
The Nazi Olympics : sport, politics, and appeasement in the 1930s
(Sports and society)
University of Illinois Press, c2003
- : hbk
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliographic essay: p. [247]-251
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Germany - the propaganda machine by Arnd Kreuger
- United States of America - the crucial battle by Arnd Kreuger
- Great Britain - the amateur tradition by Richard Holt
- France - liberty equality and the pursuit of fraternity by William Murray
- Italy - Mussolini's boys at Hitler's Olympics by Gigliola Gori
- Japan - the future in the past by Tetsuo Nakamura
- Finland - the promised land of Olympic sports by Leena Laine
- Sweden - business as usual by Lars-Olof Wilander
- Norway - Germany the Nazis and a small neighbour by Matti Goksjr
- Denmark - living with reality by Jrn Hansen
- Netherlands - in the shadow of big brother by Andr e Swijtink.
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