Lot 40609 – People’s Olympiad in Barcelona 1936 pin, 16x19mm,

People’s Olympiad in Barcelona 1936 pin, 16x19mm, broze with enamel, showing European, African and Asian athletes holding a single flag. The Republicans in Spain planned on holding an international People’s Olympiad 2 weeks before Berlin in protest of the Nazi racist ideas. The begining coincided with the outbreak of Spanish Civil War and the games were cancelled.