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Les Champions d'Hitler

Les Champions d'Hitler

Heimermann, Benoît

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

General Sociology

ISBN10: 2234076250
ISBN13: 9782234076259
Publisher: Stock
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
HITLER'S CHAMPIONS

What is sport really, other than a battle of strengths in the service of your country?

These words from Eckart Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Germany's sport leader from 1933 to 1943, perfectly characterise the role of sport in the Third Reich. Reverence for the human body was an integral part of Nazi ideology, and the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin under Hitler's leadership were intended to showcase Germany's supremacy and its current policies. In Hitler's Champions, Benoît Heimermann explores the stories of these emblematic German sportsmen, including Lutz Lang, the unlucky adversary to Jesse Owens and one of the most telling figures. While a long term political and ideological battle was being fought in the background, the black-American athlete won four medals at the 1936 games. Beyond its symbolic significance, this example illustrates a more general fate that awaited the athletes who had been hand-crafted by the German regime and would fall apart one after the other.

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