Alpine World Ski Championships 1942

winner
(11th) Alpine World Ski Championships 1942
called off
Place:	Garmisch-Partenkirchen , German Empire
Start:	February 6, 1942 (planned)
The End:	February 15, 1942 (planned)
Nations:	13 (reported)
Athletes:	-
Competitions:	6 (planned)
	Men's	Ladies
← Cortina d'Ampezzo 1941 St. Moritz 1948 →

The Alpine World Ski Championships in 1942 were planned to be the 11th Alpine World Ski Championships from February 6 to 15, 1942 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The award was made unanimously on February 3, 1941 at the FIS conference in Cortina d'Ampezzo. 13 associations had given her approval. Due to the situation during World War II , the event was canceled.

When the situation on the German Eastern Front worsened in December 1941 (“winter crisis”, see medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42 ), Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had skis collected for the front and obtained a Führer decree that banned all international winter sports events in Germany. At a ministerial conference at the end of December 1941, he stated “that it was completely intolerable for German soldiers at the front to read reports about international winter competitions, especially those with social events ... while they were up under snow, ice and cold have to suffer the worst. ”The ban was implemented in a leadership decree ; The Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten therefore canceled all skiing events, courses, competitions and championships in early 1942. This also included the planned World Ski Championships in 1942.

As part of this event, a "European Sports Conference" was to be convened, which also did not take place due to the cancellation. For the sports official Sigfrid Edström at the time, this indicated the Germans' dwindling prospects of victory in the war.

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Oelrich: Sports Validity - World Validity: Sport in the area of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 (= regional sports history. Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-5609-0 , p. 582 .
↑ «Still FIS Congress!»; “Sport Zürich” No. 14 of February 3, 1941, page 3; Column 2
^ "FIS conference in Cortina"; “Sport Zürich” No. 15 of February 5, 1941, page 3; Column 1
↑ Harald Oelrich: Sports Validity - World Validity: Sport in the area of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 (= regional sports history. Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-5609-0 , p. 495 .
^ Nils Havemann : Football under the swastika. The DFB between sport, politics and commerce. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37906-6 , p. 420 .
↑ Matthias Marschik: Sports dictatorship. Cultures of Movement in National Socialist Austria. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-515-7 , p. 361 (excerpt).
↑ Arnd Krüger : The Role of Sport in German International Politics, 1918–1945. In: Pierre Arnaud, Jim Riordan (eds.): Sport and International Politics. The Impact of Fascism and Communism on Sport. Spon, London 1998, ISBN 0-419-21440-2 , pp. 79-96, here p. 91 .

[1] Harald Oelrich: Sports Validity - World Validity: Sport in the area of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 (= regional sports history. Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-5609-0 , p. 582 .

[2] «Still FIS Congress!»; “Sport Zürich” No. 14 of February 3, 1941, page 3; Column 2

[3] "FIS conference in Cortina"; “Sport Zürich” No. 15 of February 5, 1941, page 3; Column 1

[4] Harald Oelrich: Sports Validity - World Validity: Sport in the area of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945 (= regional sports history. Vol. 5). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-5609-0 , p. 495 .

[5] Nils Havemann : Football under the swastika. The DFB between sport, politics and commerce. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37906-6 , p. 420 .

[6] Matthias Marschik: Sports dictatorship. Cultures of Movement in National Socialist Austria. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-515-7 , p. 361 (excerpt).

[7] Arnd Krüger : The Role of Sport in German International Politics, 1918–1945. In: Pierre Arnaud, Jim Riordan (eds.): Sport and International Politics. The Impact of Fascism and Communism on Sport. Spon, London 1998, ISBN 0-419-21440-2 , pp. 79-96, here p. 91 .