Nazi Olympics

Arnd Krüger is a professor of sport science and head of the Sport and Society Section at Georg-August Universität, and the author of more than twenty books. He is also a former Olympian and has served as president of the European Committee for the History of Sports. William Murray is a reader in history at La Trobe University and the author of The World's Game: A History of Soccer and The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport, and Society in Scotland.

"It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer."--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games"A solid piece of work, the book is served by informative endnotes for each essay and a general bibliographic essay, useful appendix, and serviceable index."--Choice"Includes fascinating treatments of discussions over participation in the Games . . . the result is a well-conceived and well-executed study that greatly increases our knowledge of the domestic conflicts that impacted the various countries' decisions to attend the Winter and Summer Olympics in Hitler's Germany."--H-Net Book Reviews

• contentspreface and acknowledgmentsintroductionchapter 1 Germany: The Propaganda Machinechapter 2 United States of America: The Crucial Battlechapter 3 Great Britain: The Amateur Traditionchapter 4 France: Liberty, Equality, and the Pursuit of Fraternitychapter 5 Italy: Mussolini's Boys at Hitler's Olympicschapter 6 Japan: The Future in the Pastchapter 7 Finland: The Promised Land of Olympic Sportschapter 8 Sweden: Business as Usualchapter 9 Norway: Neighborly Neutralitychapter 10 Denmark: Living with Realitychapter 11 The Netherlands: In the Shadow of Big BrotherEpilogueAppendixBibliographic EssayContributorsIndex