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Remember Hitler & Kim Jong-un reinvigorated their country Using the sporting event

2018年03月17日 17時38分51秒 | Weblog




During just 16 days in 1936, Adolf Hitler reinvigorated the Nazi party in one of his most successful propaganda coups—hosting the Olympic games in Berlin. Using the sporting event as a platform to shape the party’s image in a more favorable light, Hitler had “every reason to be satisfied” after he and Nazi officials charmed their global counterparts, the historian Oliver Hilmes told Quartz.


This is worth remembering today. After a year in which North Korea put the rest of the world on edge with its frequent missile tests and chilling propaganda, there was much cooing over the authoritarian state marching in unison with South Korea at the Winter Olympics, and the presence of some hermit state officials. Meanwhile, two countries with horrendous track records for human rights and corruption, Russia and Qatar, are gearing up to host football World Cups in 2018 and 2022.

In his 2018 book, Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August, Hilmes detailed the extraordinary impact that the Olympic games had on re-energizing the Nazi party. Focusing on the stories of people who attended, “everyone from the normal person to diplomats, to socialites to prostitutes,” Hilme detailed how the Nazis were able to use a major sporting event to manipulate the minds of the masses.


ヒットラーはオリンピックを政治利用して、ナチを活性化し、北朝鮮もオリンピックで批判の緩和に成功したが、今度は、ロシアやカタールといった人権弾圧国家がサッカーワールドカップを政治宣伝に使おうとしている、と。

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