Taylor Kingston Chess in the Third Reich 1933-1945

Autor: Taylor Kingston
Verlag / Hersteller: McFarland
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 292

How the Game Was Played, Glorified and Abused

The USSR is famous as the first totalitarian state to promote chess. Less well known is that Nazi Germany was the second. The Third Reich gave chess a tremendous financial and propaganda boost in hopes of making Germany a dominant chess power. Yet this aspect of the Nazi era has received scant attention in later German literature, and even less in English. This book fills that gap.