Berlin Olympics showcase Nazi Germany
August 1936
Hitler built a stadium for a hundred thousand and invited the world to watch his racial utopia. The embarrassment was Jesse Owens, an African American sprinter who won four gold medals on the Fuhrer's track. Leni Riefenstahl's cameras made a film both beautiful and chilling. Three years later the stadium's soldiers were in Poland.
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Also in 1936 (5 other events on record)
- Spanish Civil War begins · Europe · War
- Stalin's Great Terror begins · Europe · Politics
- Keynes publishes General Theory · Europe · Politics
- Italian East Africa proclaimed · Africa · Politics
- Edward VIII abdicates · Europe · Politics
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