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Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II
The 1941 championships excluded Allied nations and served as a fascist propaganda event with Axis countries dominating; the International Ski Federation annulled results after WWII.
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Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II
Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years earlier, during World War II, the Italian town held a world skiing championships that served as a propaganda showcase for fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
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The Olympic flag came to Cortina d'Ampezzo, one of the two owners of this year's Summer Olympic Games, with a week and a half before the official start of the competition. The tower reached Cortina, a community of 6,000 residents of the Italian Alps, at exactly 70 years from the beginning of the previous Summer Olympic Games, led by the Italian station in 1956.
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