The 1936 Olympic Games: Nazi Germany’s Gambit



Unraveling the Truth Behind the 1936 Olympics in Berlin | A Triumph of Propaganda or Resilience? Discover the untold stories of resistance and manipulation during this controversial event that shaped history forever.

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20 thoughts on “The 1936 Olympic Games: Nazi Germany’s Gambit”

  1. My local community college, Monroe Community College, hosted the traveling exhibit 'The Nazi Olympics', put together by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in the spring of '00. I was taking Psychology of the Holocaust that semester and helped out opening night. What a con job the Nazis pulled on the world. smh I will never not grin when I think of Jesse Owens and all the other kickass athletes who weren't 'Aryan perfection' showing everyone how it's done. 😁

    The Nazis didn't come to the decision to exterminate the Jews until the Wannsee Conference in 1942. Until then, various 'solutions' to the 'Jewish question' had been proposed and tried, but the fact that there were 11,000,000 Jews in Europe just Could Not Be Tolerated any longer, so a Sooper Seekrit Meeting was called at Wannsee and 15 high-ranking Nazis and German gov't officials came together to decide on the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. The answer they decided on was, as we all know now, was genocide (a word that didn't exist prior to the Holocaust. It was invented to describe it, and all events like it). My mind was blown when I learned the Final Solution wasn't decided on until '42. The number of people they were able to kill in three years is staggering. They had the assistance of IBM punch card technology at every stage of implimenting the Final Solution, so that explains a lot (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation).

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  2. So many lies and propaganda here. The guy could have rescued cats and dogs and you people would still spinn it in a way to make him look bad. So many lies. Over no other man on earth there have been told so many lies about.

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  3. Dont forget, that out of all only Soviet Union had balls to boycott those olympic. US didnt care about black and jewish people. So is all other. But now we see USSR as "bad"….

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  4. Strongly dislike your own brand of propaganda and absence of more facts. You’re peddling the same singular subject matter as “history channel” . How about looking into Japanese or US war crimes with the same interest. Or even go as far as who actually profits from all these wars. Anyway I was mainly following for your nice voice, but now you’re starting to “OF” it with unnecessarily injecting dramatic changes.

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  5. i don't know what you mean by nazi ideology plus you never actually took a close look at what the national socialist. movement truly stood for, but the German treated other people from outside better then America did. There was no totalitarian. authority over black and white people like there was in the United States. in Germany under Adolf Hitlers rule you will never find that on real journalism. you are just being a communist disinformation. agent as usual

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  6. Triumph of propaganda? Lets all put on our best Mr Mackey voice and say "Hetlur iz baad!" …Im not a Hitler fan BTW …Just sick of the youtube echo chamber and the many rhetorical tricks used in this video. History is not a super heroe movie with goodies and baddies, these rhetorical tricks can be applied to almost anything…

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  7. Another fine note to point out. If not for the games being canceled in ‘40 and ‘44, Mack Robinson very well could have had his younger brother long jumping alongside him. Instead, we are left with his brother breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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  8. Of all the documentaries I've seen on the Nazi regime that mentioned the olympics, this is the only one to ever tell me what you did. I had never thought about Koreans competing in defiance of the Japanese, for example. Extremely informative.

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  9. The only people who seemed to think there should be no politics in sport are the dictators and vile nations we pander to every time they host them, and we attend them.

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