Most importantly though developing side by side with the model of Italian Fascism was the much more incisive and ruthless model of German National Socialism, led by Adolf Hitler. For both Hitler and Mussolini sport would have a huge amount of importance for their ideologies and their Fascist societies, so much so that sporting events would become true liturgies because actually what was being paid attention to above all was the image that was being portrayed, the glorification of a historical event, a sporting event, through the use of forms that were essentially ritualistic. ... Mussolini and...

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