... true liturgies because actually what was being paid attention to above all was the image that was being portrayed, the glorification of a historical event, a sporting event, through the use of forms that were essentially ritualistic. Fascism became at a certain point a genuine lay religion, you had a sporting spectacle being turned into a powerful instrument for political ends. When comparing the Fascist ideologies under ... Hitler succeeded in doing in abusing the Berlin Olympic Games and it was used as propaganda for a Fascist state and a Fascist regime. Hitler turned the manipulation...

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