- Headline
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Protest Of Athletes
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, July 31, 1935
- Historical Event
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Amateur Athletic Union Says “Yes” to Berlin Olympics
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- 4
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- There seems to be a pretty good chance that the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin will be boycotted by a good many foreign nations; and if this happens the Germans will have only their own government to blame.
It is all very well to say that the Oiympicgames[sic] are entirely non-political and that the complexion of the government of the country where the games are to be held should not influence the decision of other countries to compete. But the fact remains that among the aspirants for places on the various Olympic teams in America, England, France and other countries are thousands of Jewish and Catholic youths — and these young men can hardly be blamed for being reluctant to accept hospitality from a government which is persecuting their fellows.
A boycott of the games might, in fact, have a wholesome effect. If it should bring home to the German citizens the revulsion which Nazi racial and religious policy has inspired abroad, it might iead to a modification of the policy and a curbing of some of the more empty-headed Nazi fire-eaters. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Katherine V.
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Bibliography
Bachrach, Susan D. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
Committee on Fair Play in Sports. Preserve the Olympic Ideal: A Statement of the Case Against American Participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin. New York: The Committee, 1935.
Large, David Clay. Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. “The Olympic Games: Germany Triumphant.” In Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945, pp. 63-85. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi Olympics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Rubien, Frederick W., ed. Report of the American Olympic Committee: Games of the XIth Olympiad, Berlin, Germany, August 1-16, 1936: IVth Olympic Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 6-16, 1936. New York: American Olympic Committee, 1936.
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