Berlin, Reich Chancellery, August 1, 1936
Esteemed Mr. President, Gentlemen of the International Olympic Committee and the Organization Committee!
Berlin, Reich Chancellery, August 1, 1936
Esteemed Mr. President, Gentlemen of the International Olympic Committee and the Organization Committee!
August 1, 2016 marks the 80th anniversary of the opening day of1 the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Berlin event was unique in that it boasted the largest number of foreign athletes in the history of the Olympics. The Berlin Olympic Village was so beautifully designed that every Olympic village since has been modelled on it. The Berlin stadium boasted seating for 100,000 spectators. Attending were four million fans and journalists from 41 nations. The Berlin Olympics was the first to be televised. Competing in the 1936 Games were a record number of participants: 4066 athletes including 331 women from 49 countries.
[Berlin, May 21, 1935]
Attention! Attention! Here is the German radio, the German station transmits from the building of the Reichstag in Berlin the 8th session of the Reichstag. We now move on to the meeting room in the Reichstag.
ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΗ ΑΡΧΕΙΟΘΕΤΗΣΗ
By Joseph Goebbels
The following essay was published in Der Angriff, 21 January 1929. Goebbels founded the newspaper in Berlin in 1927 shortly after taking over as the party’s leader there.
[“Der Jude,” Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1935), pp. 322-324.]
Αυτό το σπάνιο φιλμ, δείχνει στιγμιότυπα από την ειδυλλιακή ζωή στο ολυμπιακό χωριό.
This rare footage shows the idyllic life in the olympics village.
Diese seltenen Filmaufnahmen zeigen das idyllische Leben im Olympischen Dorf.