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World Peace or Propaganda Games?

It’s time to replace the IOC

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, in the documentary Hitler’s Olympics: How One Man Invented Olympic Ritual, tells how the Nazis reconfigured the opening ceremony as a propaganda extravaganza. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels used it to project the unity and power of Greater Germany while diverting the world’s attention from their concentration camps.

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