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Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936

By David Clay Large
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By David Clay Large
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Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.

The torch relay-that staple of Olympic pageantry-first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain.


The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of...

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