Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Olympic Silence: The Anti-Semitic Past of the IOC

An interesting article in the Gatestone Institute - Olympic Silence: The Anti-Semitic Past of the IOC.

The official OIC biography does not make a reference to Count Baillet-Latour as an organizer of the Nazi games. The OIC honors him as one of the great figures of the Olympic Movement. In 1936, after the games, the Count became an honorary member of "Freude und Arbeit," the Nazi sports organization of propaganda minister Goebbels. The Count's wife congratulated Hitler when he annexed the Sudetenland, and in 1940, when Germany invaded her home country, thanked him "for bringing Nazi ideology to Belgium".

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