Hi,
We continue Unit 8, and related to sports we have an international event in this period to be considered as part of a totalitarian regime... the Olympics in 1936.
So I propose you to investigate about the Games that year in Berlin... and find out what the relation is with a totalitarian regime...
I want you to create an small text summarising the event, and including one event or character that calls your attention the most...
The relation with the totalitarian regime is that hitler putted along all the stadium nazi flags and tried to show the superiority of the arian people.
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One character that calls me attention is the captain Wolfgang Furstner, director of the olimpics games, that killed himself two days after the olimpics games because he was discharged from military service due to his Jewish ancestry.
Sokrates :)
The 1936 Berlin Olympics were organised by Nazi Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler. This international sporting event was used as a propaganda tool to show the world a powerful, organised and "peaceful" image of the Nazi regime. One of the most striking characters was Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete who won four gold medals. His success challenged the racist ideas of the Nazi regime, which promoted the supposed superiority of the Aryan race and Owens' victory was a symbol of resistance against discrimination and racism.
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