Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics

by Michael J. Socolow

Book Overview

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding the riverbank. Above it all, the Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory they can broadcast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082214
• ISBN13: 9780252082214
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"