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Compare The Berlin Summer Games In 1930 To Create An Illusion Of A New Germany

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The Summer and Winter Olympic games in 1936 created an illusion of a new Germany on the world stage. The Democratic Weimar Republic had ended and the new Nazi regime had commenced its reign of militaristic, totalitarianism and anti-Semitism principals. The 1936 Olympic games were held to sheet those principals with Nazi propaganda and reveal the revitalized nation of Germany. The Berlin Summer games were a much higher standard than the Winter Olympics, however they both played interval parts for the Nazi propaganda machine. The sporting event was an opportunity to strengthen the white superiority of the Aryan German athlete known as the Master Race, while simultaneously displayed a restored Germany. Adolf Hitler used innovated tools such

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