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6th February 1936

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Adam Węgłowski
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Adam Węgłowski:
a regular contributor to “Focus Historia” magazine, alongside writing history books and crime novels. He was born in 1975. 

During the Winter Olympics, Hitler managed to persuade the world that his Germany was a normal, civilized country.

On 6th February 1936, Adolf Hitler must have been supremely satisfied when the Olympic flame flared out from the tower above Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Despite the fears, the international community had not boycotted the Winter Olympics organized in the Third Reich. The Nazis managed to persuade the world that, in spite of the 1935 Nuremberg laws ‘for the protection of German blood’, Hitler’s Germany was capable of organizing a sporting event, respecting all nations and races. How did they do it?

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First, the authorities in Berlin started to promote its German sport

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Adam Węgłowski:
a regular contributor to “Focus Historia” magazine, alongside writing history books and crime novels. He was born in 1975. 
Translation: Annie Krasińska
Publish date: 31.01.2022

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