This week's episode of iHeartRadio podcast Revisionist History, hosted by Malcolm Gladwell, dives into the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin which Hitler himself attended for the sole purpose of ...

“It kind of dulled the opposition to [Hitler] that clearly had been quite evident up to 1936,” Burstin says. “A lot of people felt he was clearly heading in the wrong direction, and by going ...

The relay tradition started at Adolph Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics - the Games of the XI Olympiad - and was the brainchild of Carl Diem, who was the head of the organizing committee.

It was no surprise that the 1936 Summer Olympics were going to be complicated. The wrangling had begun months before the games, as the U.S. considered whether to pull out of the games over the ...

When Adolf Hitler assumed power in January 1933, the future of the 1936 Berlin Games was suddenly ... The IOC also denied requests to add dance and creative gold and silver smithing to the program.

How did you think about that in the context of 1936? The International Olympic Committee had a choice in ’36. One of the options on the table for them, as the controversy over Hitler grew in ...

His dignified protest against Hitler’s clear discrimination at the 1936 Olympics, alongside Albritton and Thurber, deserves to be more widely known. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn ...

This week's episode of iHeartRadio podcast Revisionist History, hosted by Malcolm Gladwell, dives into the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin which Hitler himself attended for the sole purpose of ...

The relay tradition started at Adolph Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics — the Games of the XI Olympiad — and was the brainchild of Carl Diem, who was the head of the organizing committee.

The relay tradition started at Adolph Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics — the Games of the XI Olympiad — and was the brainchild of Carl Diem, who was the head of the organizing committee.