Part I: Behind the Scenes
Two years before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin. These games would become a propaganda bonanza for the Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
In just the first months of Hitler’s appointment as chancellor of Germany, he consolidated his power and began implementing his antisemitic policies. His Nazi regime opened Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, to imprison their political opponents. They organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, removed Jews from some of the professions and excluded Jewish and Roma (Gypsy) athletes from all German sports organizations.
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