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• Berlin chosen
  May 13th, 1931
• Won bid with 43
  votes for Berlin
  and 16 votes for
  Barcelona, Spain.
• Berlin supposed
  to hold Olympics
  in 1916
• Cancelled because
  of World War 1
• 1920 games held
  in Belgium, and
  they didn’t invite
  teams from
  Germany or any
  of it’s allies
• 10 years before
  they were invited
  back
• 2 years
after Berlin
  won bid,
Hitler took
    over
 Germany
• Hitler wanted
  to cancel
  Olympics

• But was
  convinced
  Olympics would
  show off “new
  Germany”

• He paid
  20,000,000
  Reichsmark
  ($8,000,000)
• No more Jews, blacks, or gypsies
•Ethical Cleansing was happening all around Germany


•Hitler decided to do the same with the Games


•Nobody of Jewish decent was allowed to compete in the
Olympics for the German team


•That decision ultimately cost the Germans many gold metals
• Responding to reports of the
  persecution of Jewish athletes in
  1933, Avery Brundage, president
  of the American Olympic
  Committee inspected Berlin


•After a brief and tightly
managed inspection of
German sports facilities in
1934, Brundage stated
publicly that Jewish athletes
were being treated fairly and
that the Games should go
on, as planned.
•Many American
newspaper editors and
anti-Nazi groups, led by,
president of the Amateur
Athletic Union, were
unwilling to be duped by
Nazi Germany

•But a determined Avery
Brundage maneuvered the
Amateur Athletic Union to
a close vote in favor of
sending an American team
to Berlin
•President Franklin
D. Roosevelt didn’t
become involved in
the boycott issue

•He didn’t listen to
many advisors or
diplomats

•Roosevelt continued
a 40-year tradition in
which the American
Olympic Committee
operated
independently of
outside influence
However bad the
Jews were being
treated, Olympic
officials were
promised by German
leaders to treat
African Americans
fairly.

Jessie Owens and
 Eulace Metcalfe
They felt that their
victories would show
that the Nazi ideals were
wrong

Metcalfe sprained his
ankle, and never went
•Newspapers argued that
victories by Blacks would
show Nazis that their Aryan
views were wrong.

•18 African Americans -- 16
men and 2 women -- went to
Berlin, 3 times as many as the
1932 Olympics

•All of these athletes came
from white universities, and
showed many Black
journalists the poor conditions
of training equipment and
facilities at black colleges
where the vast majority of
African American students
were at
Many Olympians from all over the world
chose to boycott the Olympics.

                                              Sammy Luftspring,
                                              the top-ranked
      Herman Neugass,                         lightweight boxer in
    an American Jewish                        Canada
    sprinter




                         Milton Green
    Ruth Langer,         (left), captain of
    an Austrian          the Harvard
    swimmer              University track
                         team
•49 Teams Competed
•Germany had the most athletes, 348
•America had the second highest amount, at 312

Afghanistan   Colombia        Iceland        Norway
Argentina     Costa Rica      India          Peru
Australia     Czechosloki     Italy          The
Austria       Denmark         Japan          Philippines
Belgium       Egypt           Latvia         Poland
Bermuda       Estonia         Liechtensten   Portugal
Bolivia       Finland                        Romania
Brazil        France          Luxembourg     South Africa
Bulgaria      Germany                        Sweden
Canada        Great Britain   Malta          Switzerland
Chile                         Mexico         Turkey
China         Greece          Monaco         United
              Hungary         The            States
                              Netherlands    Uruguay
                              New Zealand    Yugoslavia
•February 6 to
February 16, 1936,
Germany hosted the
Winter Olympics in the
Bavarian Alps.

•Olympic leaders'
insisted on "fair play,"
so German officials
allowed half-Jewish
Rudi Ball to compete
on the nation's hockey
team.

•Anti-Jewish signs
were temporarily
removed from the
public
The presence of the
German military at the
Winter Games made the
games a little less light
hearted
•Germany promoted the
             Olympics with colorful
             posters and magazine
             spreads.

Photograph   •imagery drew a link
#14914       between Nazi Germany
             and ancient Greece.

             •The Nazis reduced their
             vision of classical
             antiquity to ideal
             "Aryan" racial types:
             heroic, blue-eyed blonds
             with finely-chiseled
             features.
In August 1936 Olympic flags
and swastikas bedecked the
monuments and houses of a
crowded Berlin.

Most tourists were unaware that
the Nazi regime had temporarily
removed anti-Jewish signs.




                                  Tourists wouldn’t have known of a
                                  police "clean up" that swept
                                  Gypsies off the streets and kept
                                  them in a camp at the edge of
                                  Berlin.
• During the
  Olympics, the
  Germans were
  secretly building a
  concentration camp
  18 miles north of
  Berlin

•liberals, socialists,
and Communists,
and Jehovah's
Witnesses were
imprisoned there
                         Sachsenhausen
• August 1st, 1936
  Summer Olympics
  begin

• They started a new
  ritual, having a single
  runner run the
  Olympic torch from
  Olympia, Greece
Jessie Owens
                                      "the fastest human being"

                                        •    Hero of the Olympics
                                        •   Won 4 Gold Metals
                                        •   100 meters, the 200 meters,
                                            the long jump, and part of the
                                            4x100 meter relay
                                        •   Olympic Record on Long
                                            Jump
                                        •   Despite claims Hitler snubbed
                                            him, he wasn’t mad or angry




“Hitler didn’t snub me- it was FDR who snubbed me. he didn’t send me a
                                 telegram”
•African
American
athletes won 14
medals,
• That is about
one-fourth of the
56 medals
awarded the
U.S. team in all
events
Thirteen Jews
or people of
Jewish
descent won
medals in the
Nazi
Olympics,
including six
Hungarians
•Germany was very
successful during
these Olympics.

•Its athletes captured
the most medals
overall

•German hospitality
and organization won
the praises of visitors

•Hitler made plans to
keep the Olympics in
Germany for eternity.
  "In 1940 the Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo. But thereafter
 they will take place in Germany for all time to come, in this stadium."
                                                              Adolf Hitler
•In 1937, Hitler inspected a design for a stadium
                                 that would host the Olympics for forever.
                                 •It was a 400,000-seat stadium that exemplified
                                 German supremacy.




•The 1940 Winter Games were supposed to be
held in Switzerland, but plans fell through.
•In 1939, the committee voted unanimously to
return to Germany for the 1940 Olympics
•In November 1939, two months before invading
Poland, Germany withdrew.

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1936 olympics ap world history

  • 1.
  • 2. • Berlin chosen May 13th, 1931 • Won bid with 43 votes for Berlin and 16 votes for Barcelona, Spain. • Berlin supposed to hold Olympics in 1916
  • 3. • Cancelled because of World War 1 • 1920 games held in Belgium, and they didn’t invite teams from Germany or any of it’s allies • 10 years before they were invited back
  • 4. • 2 years after Berlin won bid, Hitler took over Germany
  • 5. • Hitler wanted to cancel Olympics • But was convinced Olympics would show off “new Germany” • He paid 20,000,000 Reichsmark ($8,000,000)
  • 6. • No more Jews, blacks, or gypsies
  • 7. •Ethical Cleansing was happening all around Germany •Hitler decided to do the same with the Games •Nobody of Jewish decent was allowed to compete in the Olympics for the German team •That decision ultimately cost the Germans many gold metals
  • 8.
  • 9. • Responding to reports of the persecution of Jewish athletes in 1933, Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee inspected Berlin •After a brief and tightly managed inspection of German sports facilities in 1934, Brundage stated publicly that Jewish athletes were being treated fairly and that the Games should go on, as planned.
  • 10. •Many American newspaper editors and anti-Nazi groups, led by, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, were unwilling to be duped by Nazi Germany •But a determined Avery Brundage maneuvered the Amateur Athletic Union to a close vote in favor of sending an American team to Berlin
  • 11. •President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t become involved in the boycott issue •He didn’t listen to many advisors or diplomats •Roosevelt continued a 40-year tradition in which the American Olympic Committee operated independently of outside influence
  • 12. However bad the Jews were being treated, Olympic officials were promised by German leaders to treat African Americans fairly. Jessie Owens and Eulace Metcalfe They felt that their victories would show that the Nazi ideals were wrong Metcalfe sprained his ankle, and never went
  • 13. •Newspapers argued that victories by Blacks would show Nazis that their Aryan views were wrong. •18 African Americans -- 16 men and 2 women -- went to Berlin, 3 times as many as the 1932 Olympics •All of these athletes came from white universities, and showed many Black journalists the poor conditions of training equipment and facilities at black colleges where the vast majority of African American students were at
  • 14. Many Olympians from all over the world chose to boycott the Olympics. Sammy Luftspring, the top-ranked Herman Neugass, lightweight boxer in an American Jewish Canada sprinter Milton Green Ruth Langer, (left), captain of an Austrian the Harvard swimmer University track team
  • 15. •49 Teams Competed •Germany had the most athletes, 348 •America had the second highest amount, at 312 Afghanistan Colombia Iceland Norway Argentina Costa Rica India Peru Australia Czechosloki Italy The Austria Denmark Japan Philippines Belgium Egypt Latvia Poland Bermuda Estonia Liechtensten Portugal Bolivia Finland Romania Brazil France Luxembourg South Africa Bulgaria Germany Sweden Canada Great Britain Malta Switzerland Chile Mexico Turkey China Greece Monaco United Hungary The States Netherlands Uruguay New Zealand Yugoslavia
  • 16. •February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics in the Bavarian Alps. •Olympic leaders' insisted on "fair play," so German officials allowed half-Jewish Rudi Ball to compete on the nation's hockey team. •Anti-Jewish signs were temporarily removed from the public
  • 17. The presence of the German military at the Winter Games made the games a little less light hearted
  • 18. •Germany promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazine spreads. Photograph •imagery drew a link #14914 between Nazi Germany and ancient Greece. •The Nazis reduced their vision of classical antiquity to ideal "Aryan" racial types: heroic, blue-eyed blonds with finely-chiseled features.
  • 19. In August 1936 Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a crowded Berlin. Most tourists were unaware that the Nazi regime had temporarily removed anti-Jewish signs. Tourists wouldn’t have known of a police "clean up" that swept Gypsies off the streets and kept them in a camp at the edge of Berlin.
  • 20. • During the Olympics, the Germans were secretly building a concentration camp 18 miles north of Berlin •liberals, socialists, and Communists, and Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned there Sachsenhausen
  • 21. • August 1st, 1936 Summer Olympics begin • They started a new ritual, having a single runner run the Olympic torch from Olympia, Greece
  • 22. Jessie Owens "the fastest human being" • Hero of the Olympics • Won 4 Gold Metals • 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and part of the 4x100 meter relay • Olympic Record on Long Jump • Despite claims Hitler snubbed him, he wasn’t mad or angry “Hitler didn’t snub me- it was FDR who snubbed me. he didn’t send me a telegram”
  • 23. •African American athletes won 14 medals, • That is about one-fourth of the 56 medals awarded the U.S. team in all events
  • 24. Thirteen Jews or people of Jewish descent won medals in the Nazi Olympics, including six Hungarians
  • 25. •Germany was very successful during these Olympics. •Its athletes captured the most medals overall •German hospitality and organization won the praises of visitors •Hitler made plans to keep the Olympics in Germany for eternity. "In 1940 the Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo. But thereafter they will take place in Germany for all time to come, in this stadium." Adolf Hitler
  • 26. •In 1937, Hitler inspected a design for a stadium that would host the Olympics for forever. •It was a 400,000-seat stadium that exemplified German supremacy. •The 1940 Winter Games were supposed to be held in Switzerland, but plans fell through. •In 1939, the committee voted unanimously to return to Germany for the 1940 Olympics •In November 1939, two months before invading Poland, Germany withdrew.