Hitler’s Champions

Cine Olympia

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1. Os Campeões de Hitler | Hitler’s Champions
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2. Jean-Christophe Rosé

As soon as they took power, the Nazis converted the sport in one of the most effective propaganda tools of their goal of creating a “new man”. German athletes were pressured to break all the records, in order to announce the Arian supremacy to the world. The highlight would be the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin), but the fallacy began to crumble right there.