-Cleopatra
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
NAZI GAMES
This book describes the 1936 Olympic Games that took place in Berlin Germany. At the time, Berlin was under Adolf Hitler's control, which made for an extremely interesting yet controversial Olympics. Many countries (United States included) tried to boycott and even move the Olympics out of Germany because they knew what Hitler was doing and felt that competing in the games would be supporting Hitler and his followers. Hitler however was one step ahead of the world. He made many public statements promising that there wold be no discrimination at the Games, and even put a few Jews on German teams to prove to the world that there would be in fact no discrimination. By studying the 1936 games in the present time, it is very clear that Hitler used the games as propaganda, and tried to present his beliefs on the world stage. This was a very dense and difficult read and I would only recommend it to those who are extremely interested in this time period and specifically Hitler and his followers.
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I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy it. Was there any part of the book that you think you might want to read more about? For instance, when I read The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman, I was amazed to learn that the Jews in Warsaw organized a clandestine soccer tournament after they were all moved to the Ghetto. Really fascinating stuff. Was there anything like that in this book?
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