Hans von Tschammer und Osten
Hans von Tschammer und Osten was a German sport official, SA leader and a member of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party of Nazi Germany. He was married to Sophie Margarethe von Carlowitz.
Hans von Tschammer und Osten
Hans von Tschammer und Osten and Wilhelm Frick at the Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest in 1938.
National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise
The National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise was the umbrella organization for sports and physical education in Nazi Germany. The NSRL was known as the German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise until 1938. The organization was expanded to Austria after that country's annexation by Nazi Germany.
Monument at Pariser Platz in Berlin, 1936. The promotion of sports during the Nazi regime went hand-in-hand with theatrical nationalistic triumphalism.
Berlin, gate of the Olympic Stadium
The idea of a "master race" was propagated along with the promotion of physical exercises to look after one's own body and to prepare oneself to be a warrior for the volk
War propaganda: "Germany wins on all fronts." War-related triumphalism spelt doom for the once mighty NSRL