German Secrets: Training and an Ethnic Cleanse | The Nazi Games: Berlin 1936

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nazi hitler olympic IOC Berlin games Berlin fascism antisemitism Jew black athletes racism in Germany super race eugenics aryan WWII world war II discrimination Germany Olympic games racism exclusion Olympic team boycott violence genocide
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History-Social Science
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German Secrets: Training and an Ethnic Cleanse | The Nazi Games: Berlin 1936

The Nazis prepared their athletes with extreme work out regimes, hoping this would ensure a show of superiority. They also “cleaned” the city of Sinti and Roma, starting the path to genocide. Meanwhile, three swimmers refused to go to the games, protesting the treatment of non-Aryans.
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