How Hitler Hijacked World Sport: The World Cup, the Olympics, the Heavyweight Championship and the Grand Prix
Christopher Hilton
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Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sport, and exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to co-opt it for the Nazi cause. He intended to own the Olympic movement, housing it permanently in Berlin from 1940 in a stadium seating 450,000 people. His hijack of the 1936 Games remains one of sport’s most controversial events, using it as he did to promote Aryan supremacy and showcase the Nazi state. Austria was forced to withdraw from the 1938 football World Cup just days before it started because the country no longer existed. The boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752459257
SKU
V9780752459257
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99-5
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