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<p>Adolf Hitler passes through the Brandenburg Gate on the way to the opening ceremonies of the <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic Games</a>. Berlin, Germany, August 1, 1936.</p>

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<p>This Olympic torch holder was used during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It is engraved with the 1936 Olympics torch relay route from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin, Germany. </p>
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1936 Berlin Olympics torch holder
<p>This Olympic torch holder was used during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It is engraved with the 1936 Olympics torch relay route from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin, Germany. </p>
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1936 Olympics: Torch Relay
<p>A display advertising the 11th Summer <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic Games</a> which were held in Berlin, Germany, 1936.</p>
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A display advertising the 11th Summer Olympic Games
<p>A pedestrian reads a notice announcing an upcoming public meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, December 3, to urge Americans to boycott the upcoming <a href="/narrative/7139/en">1936 Berlin Olympics</a>. New York, United States, 1935.</p>
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A notice announcing a meeting about boycotting the Olympics
<p>Adolf Hitler passes through the Brandenburg Gate on the way to the opening ceremonies of the <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic Games</a>. Berlin, Germany, August 1, 1936.</p>
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Adolf Hitler on his way to the Olympic Games opening ceremonies
<p>This cartoon, “The Modern Mercury” by Jerry Doyle, appeared in The Philadelphia Record, December 7, 1935. The faded large figure in the background bears the label “Olympics ideals of sportsmanship and international good will.” The image of Hitler in the foreground bears the words “1936 Olympics,” “Intolerance and discrimination,” and “Nazism.”</p>
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Anti-Nazi Cartoon
<p>Athletes Jesse Owens of the United States (right) and Lutz Long of Germany at the <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic</a> stadium. Berlin, Germany, 1936.</p>
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Athletes Jesse Owens and Lutz Long
<div class="datapair">A runner begins the torch relay (the first "Olympia Fackel-Staffel-Lauf") in Oympia, Greece., ca. July 1936. <p>The <a href="/narrative/7139/en">1936 Games</a> were the first to employ the torch run. Each of 3,422 torch bearers ran one kilometer (0.6 miles) along the route of the torch relay from the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, to Berlin. Former German Olympian Carl Diem modeled the relay after one that had been run in Athens in 80 B.C. It perfectly suited Nazi propagandists, who used torchlit parades and rallies to attract Germans, especially <a href="/narrative/11357/en">youth</a>, to the Nazi movement.</p> </div> <div class="datapair"> </div>
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Beginning of the torch relay for the 1936 Olympic Games
<p>Closing ceremonies of the 4th Winter Olympic Games. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 16, 1936.</p>
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Ceremonies at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games
<p>Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels sign autographs for members of the Canadian figure skating team at the Winter Olympic Games. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 1936.</p>
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Hitler and Goebbels at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games.
<p>An enthusiastic crowd greets Adolf Hitler upon his arrival at the Olympic Stadium. Berlin, Germany, August 1936.</p>
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Hitler arrives at the Olympic stadium
<p>An American travel agency displays images of a peaceful Germany sent by the German Railways Information Office to attract visitors to the 1936 <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic Games</a> in Berlin. United States, prewar.</p>
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Images of a peaceful Germany
<p>American Olympic runner Jesse Owens and other Olympic athletes compete in the twelfth heat of the first trial of the 100m dash. Berlin, Germany, August 3, 1936.</p>
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Jesse Owens and other Olympic athletes compete
<p>The last of the 3,000 runners who carried the Olympic torch from Greece lights the Olympic Flame in Berlin to start the 11th <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Summer Olympic Games</a>. Berlin, Germany, August 1936.</p>
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Lighting the Olympic flame
<p>Members of the US Olympic team—runners Helen Stephens and Jesse Owens—at the Berlin <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympic Games</a>. Germany, August 1936.</p>
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Members of the US Olympic team
<p>Exhibition of Nazi publications—carefully purged of antisemitic titles—on display during the Berlin <a href="/narrative/7139/en">Olympics</a>. The poster shows countries in which Hitler's <a href="/narrative/11663/en"><em>Mein Kampf</em> </a>had been translated into the native language. Berlin, Germany, August 1936.</p>
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Nazi publications at the Berlin Olympics

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