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Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

Revisionist History

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Protest Through Sport: The World Labour Athletic Carnival

This chapter explores the Jewish Labor Committee's organization of the World Labour Athletic Carnival as a response to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, intended to protest Nazism and support anti-Nazi efforts. Despite its noble goals and the involvement of notable athletes, low attendance highlighted the deep ideological rifts within the labor movement.

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