Sport, > e Giochi olimpici nell'Europa in guerra (1936-1948) Exhibition in Rome, Italy
Friday 19 May 2017Friday 28 July 2017
In partnership with the Shoah Museum Foundation of Rome and with the support of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Lazio Region, the Rome Capital, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, and the Jewish Community of Rome.
By glorifying the body of athletes, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes make sports venues for the recruitment of populations, a field for ideological propaganda and an instrument at the service of aggressive diplomacy. At the same time, sport asserts a new face and becomes a space of emancipation and resistance to Nazism.
