The
1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the
V Olympic Winter Games (
French: Les
Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver) (
German:
Olympische Winterspiele 1948) (
Italian:
V Giochi olimpici invernali) (
Romansh:
Gieus olimpics d'enviern 1948), was a winter
multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in
St. Moritz,
Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been 12 years since the last Winter Games in
1936. From the selection of a host city in a neutral country to the exclusion of Japan and Germany, the political atmosphere of the post-war world was inescapable during the Games. The organizing committee faced several challenges due to the lack of financial and human resources consumed by the war.