How Hitler Hijacked World Sport: The World Cup, the Olympics, the Heavyweight Championship and the Grand Prix

by Christopher Hilton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752459252
• ISBN13: 9780752459257
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"