The Nazi Olympics: New Perspectives

by G.E. Murray, W. J. Murray, Arnd Kruger

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252028155
• ISBN13: 9780252028151
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.6"