world how effective was nazi Germany. It was also an excellent opportunity for the Nazis to demonstrate to the world the truth about the “Superior Race”. The Olympic Games of Berlin gave the Nazis the ability to display to the world as 49 countries participated, accompanied by various media. For the minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels was the perfect scenario.
Hitler sent a call to the youth of the world to participate in the Games – except, of course, the Blacks and the Jews originally. Berlin was “cleaned” also from the Roma, who were sent to a special concentration camp.
Finally, on August 1, 1936, nearly 4,000 athletes will parade with the hitler youth, the sounds of the opera Tannhäuser of Wagner, the German anthem and the anthem of the Nazi party, which is going to sound 480 times during the Games.
The Olympic Stadium is ready on time and could accommodate 100,000 spectators. Other 150 olympic buildings was also ready in time for the Games. The anti-semitic posters that you saw everywhere in the streets of Germany before the Games had disappeared. Signs saying “Jews not welcome here” were not longer visible, under the risk of international boycotts. All had been prepared so as to ensure that the Games will be rolled on smoothly and does not cause any inconvenience.
The star of the sports team of nazi Germany was then the Lutz Lang, a brilliant runner of long distances, which fit easily in the picture of the blond, blue-eyed “aryan race”. However, the most famous athlete of the era the whole world was Jesse Owens of the united states, an african american and therefore, on the basis of the ideology of the Nazis, inferior to the athletes of the German team.
The “racially inferior” Owens managed to cause a great upheaval in nazi Germany, winning a total of four gold medals: in the 100 metres, in the 200 metres, in the long jump and the relay race 4 x 100m. During the Games he broke 11 olympic records and won the Lutz Lang. The Lang was the first to congratulated Owens after the end of the Race. There were 10 african americans on the U.S. team, which won 7 gold medals, 9 silver and 3 bronze. Hitler refused to pass the gold medal on the neck of Owens.
“The Americans should be ashamed that they let Niggers earn medals for those. I will not give my hand to this Nigga… do you really think I will allow myself to give up the hand in a Negro”, is reported to have told Hitler after the victory of Owens in the 100m.
The Olympics of nazi Germany
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