dc.contributor.author | Smith, Samuel D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-09T16:30:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-09T16:30:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Smith, Samuel D. "Ode to Peace or Prelude to Militarism?: The Opening Ceremonies of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as Political Theater." Vanderbilt Historical Review 1.1 (2016): 28-33. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/8358 | |
dc.description.abstract | When Nazi leadership ultimately embraced the notion of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, the decision entailed an undertaking to which an inherently militaristic society would seem ill-suited: orchestrating an opening ceremony, a celebration grounded in the principles of peace and harmony, that could withstand the scrutiny of a leery global audience. Through a dynamic approach that steeped the ceremony's routine proceedings in rich symbolic gestures, the Nazis' audition on the international stage generally succeeded in establishing an outwardly benign atmosphere. However, a thorough appraisal reveals that the regime could not bring itself to fully suppress its martial disposition, which consequentially colored a number of the day's events. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University, Department of History | en_US |
dc.title | Ode to Peace or Prelude to Militarism?: The Opening Ceremonies of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as Political Theater | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |