Why were the 1936 Olympic Games controversial?

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1936 Olympic Games were controversial at the time because they became highly politicized as a result of the fact that they were hosted in Nazi Germany. The roles of various actors at the 1936 Olympic Games have been exploring extensively since then, and some people feel that the nations participated have lacked the opportunity to stop the growing influx of Nazism in Germany. In particular, some members of the Jewish community want nations such as the United States to boycott the 1936 Olympics to express their reluctance to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

The beginnings of the 1936 Olympic Games were not particularly controversial. Berlin gained the opportunity to host the Olympics in 1931, three years before Hitler took over power in Germany. It was hoped that the Olympics would symbolize the German return to society after the fighting of the First World War and many people welcomed the opportunity to show the best athletes in the world at the summer Games in Berlin. However, the counselors in their cabinet, howeverIf the 1936 Olympic Games could be a great opportunity for propaganda, which allowed Germany to put its best leg in advance and introduce the skills of the German people. As a result, Hitler came to support the Olympics and devoted significant funds to effort and sponsored the first Olympic torch relay.

When competitors and guests arrived in Berlin in 1936, they met with a heavily disinfected Germany. The Jews, Gypsies and others were quietly removed from Berlin, along with discriminatory features and other signs of the scope of the Nazi regime. The German government only allowed Aryan to compete for Germany, with the exception of many talented athletes, and they showed up quite a show for their foreign guests and hired the famous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to document the events. Glamor of the Olympics was designed to hide what is hiding under a very problemvou land.

At the 1936 Olympic Games,

49 nations competed, despite the challenges to boycott of the Olympic Games in some participating countries. The opponents of the Olympic Games claimed that by sending athletes to the event, nations would forgive the activities of the Nazi regime and that a strong message could be sent by refusing to participate. Many people, however, came to the idea that the Olympics were an apolitical event and that boycotting would contradict the internationalist spirit of the Olympics and their opinions eventually won.

You can hear the 1936 Olympic Games referred to as the Nazi Olympics, in fact that the management strongly controlled the presence of the Nazi regime. A lot to frustrate the Nazi government, several black athletes, including Jesse Owens, excelled at the Olympic Games, while the Nazi belief in racial superiority and the Jewish athletes from several nations also in competition. Many of these athletes later wrote that this experienceThey use very much, and while maintaining a very friendly and favorable treatment from their hosts, which is quite irony when one considers the fact that German Jews will soon find themselves in brutal prison camps.