Word: sportfeld
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...understood the political and public relations possibilities of the Olympics better than Adolf Hitler. The show he staged in Berlin in 1936 was, in its grandiose effects, designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made...
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