European sport in the trial of Nazism, from the Berlin Olympics to the London Olympics (1936-1948) Exhibition at the Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation in Lyon

Totalitarian regimes have not only used school, the army and leisure to manufacture the body of the "new man" and mobilize his spirit. They also resorted to physical education and sport envisioned as a means of improving 'race' and preparing for war.