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Just in Time for the Beijing Olympics
Posted by Jonathan on April 24th, 2008 (All posts by Jonathan)
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has an online exhibition
about the 1936 Nazi Olympics:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php
In August 1936, Adolf Hitler=92s Nazi dictator****p scored a huge
propaganda success as host of the Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Games
were a brief, two-week interlude in Germany=92s escalating campaign
against its Jewish population and the country=92s march toward war. This
site explores the issues surrounding the 1936 Olympic Games=97the Nazis=92
use of propaganda, the intense boycott debate, the history of the
torch run, the historic performance of Jesse Owens, and more.
Change a few names and nouns and the above description fits the 2008
Olympics rather closely, no? Congratulations to the USHMM on its fine
sense of timing. Let=92s hope that the Chinese government benefits less
from the 2008 games than Hitler did from the ones in 1936.
