1936 Olympics Essay

The 1936 Berlin Olympics were the first Olympic Games to ever be televised. Many countries around the world compete in a sporting event called the Olympic Games, and although considered an athletic event, some countries have taken it upon themselves to also make a political statement. The 1936 Olympics, for example, used physical competition as a means of superiority to other competing nations, while also proving their governmental power (Bendersky 37). For two weeks in August, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship camouflaged itself in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, hiding its real agenda; the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle the world, and to fool it with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.