Board #15 - Noble Symbols, Brutal Realities: The Horse Under the Nazi Regime

• In Event: 72-305 - Poster Session: Media, Discourse, and Political Attitudes

Brief Overview

The Nazi regime used the 1936 Olympics to portray the horse as a noble symbol of Aryan strength, yet wartime records and accounts from the front lines reveal the horse's brutal reality as an exploited and disposable tool of the Wehrmacht.

Author

• Kathryn Doane, Carroll University