“GOD help them if they lose” were the encouraging words from Benito Mussolini to Italian players on the eve of the 1934 World Cup.
Il Duce demanded nothing less than victory from his country and saw the tournament as the ideal vehicle to promote his fascist policies, as did Aldolf Hitler two years later, when the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in Garmisch and Berlin.
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