Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games - Softcover

Rippon, Anton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848848684 ISBN 13: 9781848848689

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military, 2012

Synopsis

For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler's Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.

About this title

About the Author:

ANTON RIPPON is an award-winning newspaper columnist, journalist and author of over 30 books including Gas Masks for Goalposts: Football in Britain During the Second World War; Hitler’s Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games; and Gunther Plüschow: Airmen, Escaper and Explorer. Rippon was named Newspaper Columnist of the Year in the 2017 Midlands Media Awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848848684
• ISBN 13: 9781848848689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220