Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by Kingston, Taylor
Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by Kingston, Taylor

Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

The USSR is famous as the first totalitarian state to promote chess. Less well known is that...
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Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by Kingston, Taylor

Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

$168.48
Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by Kingston, Taylor

Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

$168.48
Author: Taylor Kingston
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The USSR is famous as the first totalitarian state to promote chess. Less well known is that Nazi Germany was the second. The Third Reich gave chess a tremendous financial and propaganda boost in hopes of making Germany a dominant chess power. Yet this aspect of the Nazi era has received scant attention in later German literature, and even less in English. This book fills that gap.

Using a multitude of German sources, the author has crafted a narrative showing how the Nazis completely remade German chess into a monolithic structure to showcase the supposed cultural and intellectual superiority of the "master race." Many games by German masters are presented--Bogoljubow, Richter, Samisch, Rellstab, Kieninger, Junge, and more--and by others who came under Nazi rule: Alekhine, Keres, Eliskases, et al. Important political figures are featured: Otto Zander, Erhardt Post, Hans Schemm, Josef Goebbels, and especially Hans Frank. Politics affecting chess are detailed, both external (e.g., the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia) and internal (rivalry between the Grossdeutscher Schachbund and Kraft durch Freude), as of course are the effects of the war and persecution of Jews.



Author: Taylor Kingston
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 09/23/2024
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781476692609

About the Author
Taylor Kingston has been a chess enthusiast since his teens, and was a correspondence master in the 1980s. His historical articles have appeared in Chess Life, New in Chess, Inside Chess, Kingpin, and ChessCafe.com, and he has authored biographical works on Edgard Colle and Carlos Torre. He lives in Paso Robles, California.
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