Synopsis
Michael Portillo learns how new rail lines were constructed to transport crowds of spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936, how a planned boycott by the United States and other European nations failed, and how the success of a black American athlete undermined the Nazi ideology of Aryan superiority.
- Programme: Great Continental Railway Journeys
- Series: Great Continental Railway Journeys
- Episode: Berlin to Stuttgart
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2020
- History | The inter-war years, 1918-1939 | Depression, War and Recovery, 1930-1951 | The coming of war
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