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Aug 22, 2023 · For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Softpedaling its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion, the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.
Jun 4, 2024 · NARA. The Olympic torch relay passes by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on July 31, 1936, en route to the Olympic Stadium. Less than two years later, Hitler annexed Austria, and Vienna’s...
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Hitler placed the full resources of the state behind the Olympic preparations. Goebbels and the Nazi regime covered up their violent, racist policies throughout the Games by removing anti-Semitic signs and toning back rhetoric of newspapers.
Hitler saw the 1936 Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and antisemitism, and the official Nazi Party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter, wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games.
The 1936 Olympics were the first to employ the torch run. 1936. Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, was commissioned by the Nazi regime to produce a film of the 1936 Summer Games. The resulting propaganda documentary, Olympia, won first prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1938.
May 10, 2012 · By Max Fisher. May 10, 2012. Though dressed up as an ancient Greek tradition, the torch relay ceremony was originally designed to further Hitler's nationalist propaganda. Nazi soldiers salute...
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Aug 1, 2016 · Dr. Joseph Goebbels, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Reichs Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten and Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg observe the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany...
