How Hitler Hijacked World Sport (1933-1939)

He intended to own the Olympic movement, housing it permanently in Berlin from 1940 in a stadium seating 450,000 people. 

His hijacking of the 1936 Berlin Games remains one of sport’s most controversial events, using it as he did to promote Aryan supremacy and showcase the Nazi state. 

Austria was forced to withdraw from the 1938 football World Cup just days before it started because that country now no longer existed after Anschluss with the Reich, which in turn lead to the birth of 'Gross Deutschland' (Lit: Greater Germany) . 

The boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in 1936 and again in 1938 came to represent democracy versus fascism. 

German technology crushed all comers in Motor Sport Racing Events both in Europe and elsewhere. 

A government ministry was even set up to use physical fitness to prepare the population for war. 

Adolf Hitler understood that sport had many uses other then that of entertaining the masses: this is the story of how he used and abused that power over it.

Originally published 2011, this is the later 2012 Digital Reissue.