Berlin 1936 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

01 Aug 1936

End:

16 Aug 1936

Countries:

Athletes:

3963

Sports:

Events:

129

City:

Berlin, Germany (Kiel - sailing)

Berlin, Germany was selected as the host city for the Olympics 1936 in 1931, two years before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power.
After the news about the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, several calls were made for a boycott of the Games all over the world.
An alternative, also known as the People's Olympics, was scheduled for Barcelona, Spain, but they were canceled when the Spanish Civil War broke out.

The Third Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler officially opened the Olympic Games in 1936 at the 100,000-seat Olympic stadium.
Spain did not take part in the Games because of their Civil War.
For the first time, the international community saw the Torch Relay, in which a flaming torch from Olympia, Greece traveled through seven countries to Berlin for the Opening Ceremony.
Olympics 1936 were televised live for the first time, and twenty-five large screens were set up throughout Berlin, allowing the residents to see competitions for free.
In 1936 the world remembered two persons - Adolf Hitler, who attempted to prove his theories on the superiority of the Aryan race, and African-American athlete Jesse OWENS of the USA, who crashed Hitler's theory.