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Description for Nazi Games
Hardcover. Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 730.
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain.
The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee ... Read more
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain.
The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393058840
SKU
V9780393058840
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Ref
99-2
About David Clay Large
David Clay Large is a professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, U.C. Berkeley. A specialist on the history of Modern Europe, especially Germany and Austria, Large is the author of ten books including Berlin, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich, and Nazi Games.
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