Twelve years from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to St. Moritz
The outbreak of hostilities, first in Japan and China and then in Europe, made it impossible for the Olympic Winter Games to be held in 1940 or 1944. Due to the war many athletes had not left their home countries for a long while, or indeed at all – let alone to compete at an international sporting event. The St. Moritz 1948 Games thus represented a kind of rebirth, not just for the athletes, but for the whole world. --- St. Moritz 1948 - Opening Ceremony.
