Die Olympischen Spielein Los Angeles 1932 DIESE CHRONIK DER X. OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE ZU LOS ANGELES IM JAHRE 1932 – “Chronicle of the Tenth Olympic Games of Los Angeles in 1932” – Card album published by Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken, Berlin 1932. Complete album. Compiled in collaboration with journalists and athletes, including Willy Meisl, Walter Richter, and others.
A comprehensive photographic documentation in hundreds of color and black-and-white cards affixed to the album’s pages, recording the Los Angeles 1932 Olympic Games. Includes an extensive review of the competitions, results, and the athletes’ daily schedules. Thirty-seven countries participated in this Olympics, comprising a total of 1,332 athletes (1,206 men and 126 women) in 14 different sports and a total of 117 competitions. The cards document the athletes competing in various disciplines—track and field, races, jumps, throws, wrestling, shooting, and many more. Several Jewish-American and European athletes won medals at this Olympics, among them swimmer Helen Madison.
At the opening of the album is a large photograph of Reich President von Hindenburg, shortly before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. In the foreword, written by the President of the Olympic Committee, the year 1936 was already designated as the year of the next Olympic Games in Germany—despite the fact that only 82 German athletes participated in the 1932 Olympics, less than half the number of German athletes who took part in the Amsterdam 1928 Olympics. A combination of the Great Depression and the vast distance of Los Angeles from Europe led to significantly smaller European delegations compared to those that attended the previous Olympics held in Amsterdam.
142 [3] pages. 32 cm. Hardcover with original dust jacket. Overall good condition.
