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"Propaganda and Reality" – Anti-Nazi Brochure Campaigning to Boycott the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany – Brussels, 1936
Propaganda et Realite [Propaganda and Reality], an anti-Nazi brochure campaigning to boycott the fourth Winter Olympics held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Brussels: Comité International de Défense de l'Idée Olympique ("The International Committee for Defending the Olympic Idea"), 1936. French.
A brochure printed as part of the campaign to boycott the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany. The title page is divided in half, depicting "Propaganda" – an athlete with the Olympic flag on his chest and a vaulting pole in his hand, and "Reality" – an identical illustration, in which the Olympic flag is replaced by a swastika, the pole by a bloody sword and the belt by a gun holster. The brochure features articles and reviews, accompanied by pictures and illustrations, denouncing the racism, discrimination and oppression prevalent in German sports, and the crimes of the Nazi regime against the Jews of Germany and Jewish athletes. The brochure also includes quotes from German sources revealing the policy of discrimination, and quotes by leading intellectuals, journalists, politicians and athletes who object to participation in sport competitions in Nazi Germany. The brochure stresses the Nazis' manipulative use of the Olympic Games to mislead the world and hide the regime's crimes.
The brochure was issued by the Comité International de Défense de l'Idée Olympique ("The International Committee for Defending the Olympic Idea"), founded during the anti-fascist congress in Paris in 1935. Several sports organizations took part in the congress; the most prominent of which, the Red Sport International, was sponsored by Communist Russia.
[8] pp. (all but one with two columns), approx. 25 cm. Good condition. Creases and minor blemishes. Small tears to edges.
Not recorded in OCLC.
