A Look Inside Hitler's 1936 Nazi Olympics Through Amazing Photographs (historycollection.com)

Jesse Owens salutes - and does not burn - his nation's flag. One of the four Olympic gold medals won by track
and field star Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games. There's a lesson here if we can see it. Owens poses with German medalist Luz Long

History.com  "Hitler used the Olympics as the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the prowess of the Third Reich and these Olympics were the first ever to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 different countries around the world. Hitler’s Nazi regime built a brand new, state-of-the-art 100,000-seat track and field stadium, six gymnasiums, and many other smaller arenas.

"Originally, Hitler wanted to bar Jews and blacks from competing in the games, but after some backlash and threats of boycott, international Jews were allowed to compete. German Jews remained banned and many nations, including the U.S., did not allow their Jewish athletes to compete as to not offend the Nazi regime.

"In an attempt to help ˜clean up the city,’ the German Ministry of the Interior authorized the Berlin Chief of Police to arrest all Romani Gypsies and put them in the Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp. The Nazis arrested over 600 people and imprisoned them. Those deemed fit were forced to work. The rest were killed.

"During the opening ceremony, there was a moment in which the Olympic Committee released 25,000 pigeons, who flew overhead, circling the stadium. Following the release of the birds, there was a symbolic cannon shot which, quite literally, scared the excrement out of the pigeons. It rained down all over the stadium. As remembered by U.S. distance runner Louis Zamperini, “you could hear the pitter-patter on our straw hats, but we felt sorry for the women, for they got it in their hair, but I mean there was a mass of droppings, and I say it was so funny”. . .  More...

German SS troops relaxing at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
 How many of these guys will be alive in the next decade?

1936 Olympic Hitler High Resolution Stock Photography and Images - Alamy

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