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This Nazi Germany timeline includes critical dates that led to the rise and fall of the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the beginning of World War 2.
Garmisch was the headquarters of the German Gebirgstruppen (Mountain Troops), and the Americans took over their military facilities in 1945. (Note - This post has now been closed, and this building has been torn down - thanks to Tim Heck and John Mann for this news.) Olympia Tunnel at Eschenlohe.
The Story of Peenemünde dates from the very beginning of this operation, when captured German rocket scientists were still being held and interrogated at the U.S. military garrison at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Among the 118 separate documents, mostly in English but with a few in German, are:
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In 1936, Nazi Germany hosted both the summer and the winter Olympic games. The Summer Olympics were held in Berlin and the Winter Olympics were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria.
Although not as politically charged as the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, the event was manipulated by the Nazi regime, which suppressed unfavourable press coverage and staged lavish celebrations to mark the openings of new facilities.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Garmisch and Partenkirchen remained separate until their respective mayors were forced by Adolf Hitler to combine the two market towns on 1 January 1935 in anticipation of the 1936 Winter Olympic Games. Today, the united town is casually (but incorrectly) referred to as Garmisch, much to the dismay of Partenkirchen's residents.
On August 1, 1936, Hitler opened the 11th Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Inaugurating a new Olympic ritual, a lone runner arrived bearing a torch carried by relay from the site of the ancient Games in Olympia, Greece.
