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 f
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
Hans von Tschammer und Osten
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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.
National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise
…The NSRL was led by the Reichssportführer, who after 1934 simultaneously presided over the German National Olympic Committee. The NSRL's leaders were Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1933–1943), Arno Breitmeyer (1943–1944) and Karl Ritter von Halt (1944–1945). The 1916 Summer Olympics had been awarded to Berlin, but were canceled…
Hans von Tschammer und Osten
Hans von Tschammer und Osten and Wilhelm Frick at the Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest in 1938.