The Nazi Olympics : Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s / edited by Arnd Krüger and William Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, W. J. (William J.)

Krüger, Arnd.

Series:

Sport and society.

Sport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany).

Olympic Games.

Olympics--Political aspects--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Olympics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Germany : the propaganda machine / Arnd Krüger

United States of America : the crucial battle / Arnd Krüger

Great Britain : the amateur tradition / Richard Holt

France : liberty, equality, and the pursuit of fraternity / William Murray

Italy : Mussolini's boys at Hitler's Olympics / Gigliola Gori

Japan : the future in the past / Tetsuo Nakamura

Finland : the promised land of Olympic sports / Leena Laine

Sweden : business as usual / Lars-Olof Wilander

Norway : Germany, the Nazis, and a small neighbor / Matti Goksjr

Denmark : living with reality / Jrn Hansen

Netherlands : in the shadow of big brother / Andre Swijtink

Epilogue / Arnd Krüger.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-252-09164-7

OCLC:

884725844