Sport, athletes and the Olympic Games in wartime Europe (1936-1948) Exhibition at the Edmond Michelet Study Center and Museum in Brive-la- Gaillarde

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By glorifying the body of athletes, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes make sports places 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.