In 1931, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Berlin the 1936 Olympics, a sign Germany was returning to normal international relations after World War One.

Yet Adolf Hitler's rise to power presented the IOC with more than a few problems, one being that Hitler hated the Olympics, and another was many countries wanted to boycott the games.

Titus and Mick look at how Hitler came to embrace the Olympics, and how international opposition to them crumbled.

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Resources

I went through a mountain of stuff on this topic, but books that stand out an are worth reading if you want to know more are Hitler's Olympics: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games by Christopher Hilton, Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes and Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boykoff.

 

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