BERLIN OLYMPICS 1936

What IS THE BERLIN OLYMPICS 1936 AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT?

• The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games had been handed to Berlin before the Nazis came to power but now it was the perfect opportunity for Hitler to demonstrate to the world, how efficient the Nazi Germany was. It was also the perfect opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race. The Berlin Olympic Games to paint a false image of the Nazi Party and pushed propaganda to advance their cause and give them an opportunity to prove their Aryan race was superior then anyone else's.
• The Olympics was held in Berlin Germany and officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad and it was a multi- sport event in 1936.

JEWISH ATHLETES

• Helene Mayer was a star fencer and she was to represent Germany at the Olympic Games in Berlin. She was considered as a ""non - Aryan"" because her father was a Jew. Helene had won a silver medal in the women's individual fencing and she gave a Nazi salute at the podium like the other medallists.
• Not many Jewish athlete wanted to compete for Germany at the Summer Olympics.
• Nine Athletes that were Jewish or of a Jewish parentage won medals in the Nazi Olympics. Including the five Hungarian and Helene Mayer.
• Seven Jewish male althletes from the U.S were at the Berlin Olympics.
• Most of the Jewish Athletes did not fully grasp at the time the extent and the purpose of the Nazi of Jews and other groups of people.

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BOYCOTT MOVEMENTS

• The movements of the boycott in the 1936 Berlin Olympics surfaced in United States, Great Britain, France, Sweden , Czechoslovakia and in the Netherlands.
• The largest boycott was the ""People's Olympiad "" and it was for the summer of 1936 in Barcelona, Spain, was canceled because of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War on July 1936.
• Jewish athletes also wanted to boycott at the Berlin Olympics.
• Jewish organisations like the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor committee supported the boycott and number of liberal catholic politicians and many college presidents did too.
• Other countries wanted to support the boycott but the boycott movement failed.

PREPARATION For THE GAMES

• Olympic flags and swastikas covered houses that were festive and crowded in Berlin.
• July 16, 1936 , 800 Roma were in Berlin and they were arrested and was under police guard control at a special camp in Berlin suburb of Marzahn.
• Nazi officials made a gradred foreign visitors to not be subjected to their criminal penalties of the German anti -homo sexuality laws.

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OPENING OF THE GAMES

• Hitler opened the XIth olypaid on August 1 1936
• The hundreds of the athletes marched to the stadium to line up in alphabetical order on the opening day.
• A runner arrived holding a torch from a site of the ancient Games in Olympia , Greece.
• 49 athletic teams from different places in the world competed in the Berlin Olympics. That is more than any other previous Olympics.
• One of the largest Germany teams that had 348 athletes.
• The second largest was the U.S . Team had 312 members
• The Soviet Union did not join any of the Olympics or Berlin Games until the 1953 Helsinki Games

PROPAGANDA

• The Olympics had colourful posters and magazine spreads that were successfully made by the Germans
• The documentary of the Olympics was directed by Germany film maker Leni Riefenstahl who made a other propaganda film named Triumph Of The Will in 1934.

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GERMAN VICTORS

• German people athletes captured the most medals.
• The hospitality and organisation won the visitors