“HAS not Goering admitted that the Games will be used for propagating the new Germany of Hitler? Is that the purpose of the Olympic Games, or are they designed to encourage the fraternity of peoples?”George Sinfield of the Morning Star’s forerunner the Daily Worker posed this question in its July 20 1936 edition, explaining the Worker’s call for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics and support instead for the grassroots People’s Olympiad planned to take place in Barcelona in Republican Spain.

“HAS not Goering admitted that the Games will be used for propagating the new Germany of Hitler? Is that the purpose of the Olympic Games, or are they designed to encourage the fraternity of peoples?”

George Sinfield of the Morning Star’s forerunner the Daily Worker posed this question in its July 20 1936 edition, explaining the Worker’s call for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics and support instead for the grassroots People’s Olympiad planned to take place in Barcelona in Republican Spain.

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