Christopher Hilton

How Hitler Hijacked World Sport (eBook, ePUB)

The World Cup, the Olympics, the Heavyweight Championship and the Grand Prix

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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 Schmeling in 1936 and 1938 came to represent democracy versus fascism. German technology crushed all corners in Grand Prix racing, as well as the Isle of Man TT. Hitler even set up a government ministry to use physical fitness to prepare the population for war. He understood that sport has many uses: this is how he used it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press LTD
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752478456
• Artikelnr.: 38224982

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hilton was fomerly a freelance author and journalist. He wrote more than sixty books on both German history and a variety of sports, including The Wall and After the Berlin Wall.