In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I, the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose ...

Radios across the world were tuned in on August 14, 1936 when nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold at Hitler's Olympics. The Nazi dictator watched from the stands as ...

Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the mid-1930s and immediately set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics ever, the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries from around ...

“Arabs holding the Palestinian flag were screaming ‘HEIL HITLER’ while the Israeli national anthem was playing at an Olympic soccer event,” social media user Marina Medvin said in a post ...

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, it was a time of deep-rooted segregation. The Olympics gave Adolf Hitler an ideal showcase for Nazi propaganda as he aimed to illustrate the Games as a symbol of Aryan ...

Hitler oversaw a number of momentous innovations to the Games. It was the first Olympics that introduced the torch relay, where a lighted torch is carried from Olympia in Greece to the site of the ...

W ith Israel playing Paraguay in the Paris 2024 Olympics football match, pro-Palestine protesters marked their presence in the stadium and chanted 'Heil Hitler' when the former's national anthem ...