Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the mid-1930s and immediately set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics ever, the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries from around ...
before Adolf Hitler rose to power. Hitler was uninterested in hosting the Olympics until Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels convinced him that they could advance ...
it’s safe to bet that most were not thinking of Adolf Hitler. Malcolm Gladwell isn’t most people. Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics on the ...
The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, it was a time of deep-rooted segregation. The Olympics gave Adolf Hitler an ideal showcase for Nazi propaganda as he aimed to illustrate the Games as a symbol of Aryan ...
Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered ... A 23-year-old American Negro had marched into Adolf Hitler's den, a place prepared to showcase ...