With Olympic Fever in the air we should all pause to remember the 1936 Summer Olympics. Hosted by Berlin and a giddy Adolf Hitler who was anxious to show off to the rest of the world his well trained athletes and enthusiastic, orderly (robot)citizens. Nazi propaganda was everywhere, even in the printed (in Berlin, in English, offset) Olympic programs, as seen here. To see the Olympics in action, see Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's
Olympia.
It makes you wonder - how many athletes who performed during these Olympics were killed in World War 2? Or how about the printers of these programs? Did their printshop even survive the war?
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| Are those THE four horsemen? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Three-Man-Naked-Juggling! My favorite! The Olympics has (sadly) since banned this particularly lovely-to-behold sport. |
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| Some people just look funny when they're being sporty. |
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| For whom does this Nazi bell toll? |
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| Poorly named mouthwash for athletes only. |
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| Eye-less (soul-less) Aryans? |
