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Berlin Olympics

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The Olympic Stadium in west Berlin, Germany. This stadium will always be remembered for hosting the 1936 Olympics, presided over by Adolf Hitler. The US athlete Jesse Owens spectacularly won four gold medals, thereby striking a blow against Hitler's Aryan ideology.
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Adolf Hitler, then German Chancellor, at the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. These Games were some of the most controversial in Olympic history, as they were used by Hitler as propaganda for Nazi ideology. This prompted several nations to call for a boycott, in protest against the anti-Semitic policies enacted by Hitler's National Socialist government.

Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party attempted to use the occasion for propaganda purposes and to demonstrate German physical prowess.



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Who could forget the black boy born in rural poverty, totally outside the world of competitive sport, who by his own efforts blazed his own path to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and an unprecedented four gold medals?
Baker, William J. Jesse Owens, an American life by Puffer, Raymond / Kliatt
Note the comment of the Times reporter, who said the Berlin Olympics were "the greatest publicity stunt in history.
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