The Olympic Games and Germany's domination within them had an equally resounding effect across the world, as their overwhelming victory during the Great War had been two years prior.
Germany was no longer just a highly militarized industrial state… No, it was an empire who reigned supreme and sovereign during times of war and peace alike. And those athletes who gained their medals, regardless of what tint they were made of? They were paraded as national heroes.
If soldiers and generals like Bruno were heralded as the men who defended the fatherland from the barbarians at the gates, then these athletes were lauded with the prestige and affection reserved for those cultural guardians.
Radio interviews, newspaper advertisements, propaganda leaflets distributed across the city, the men and women who had brought home the gold, the silver, and the bronze for nearly every competition were plastered everywhere.
