”The day was 7 th August 1936 as Germany faced Norway in the knockout rounds of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Norway was a team, the Germans had been undefeated since their last eight matches against them. However this match unlike the others was different as it had a very special guest among the stands, The Fuhrer along with his group of ministers had gone to Berlin’s Poststadion, to lend their support to Otto Nerz and his German team. It was Adolf Hitler’s first football match and was clearly trying to use the games as a propaganda and a means of gaining prestige at that time.” Throughout history dictators have used sports as a political propaganda. Politics and football looks at how Europe’s right wing dictatorship pounced on the working man’s sport as a means of drumming up support for their personal ambitions. May it be Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy or even the Nazis in Germany. Football not only a way of showing support but also served a strategy to spread one...
