Germany was trusted to hold the Olympic Games in 1936.
The place where the Olympics takes place has always been of political importance, and I think this is indisputable. Holding the Olympic Games is prestigious, it increases the country’s authority in regard to foreign policy, as well as respect to the country at the global scene. And it was exactly the
In 1933 there were 503 thousand of Jews living in Germany. (Radio “Echo Moskvy” on April 10, 2006.)
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Nazi Germany headed by Adolf Hitler, whom the International Olympic Committee trusted to hold the Olympics.
It meant that the Fьhrer was still getting certain support, and that the give-away game with the international political elite was still going on. Rights of that game were rather simple, as long as Hitler did everything as required (armed and prepared for the war with the USSR), he was provided with money, insufficient lands and political prestige. In sight of his population and the rest of the World. When someone tells us that it was Stalin who had brought Hitler to power, they prefer not to mention these Olympics. That is because it’s crystal clear that the USSR had no part in choosing Berlin for holding of the Olympic Games in 1936. Why so? Because the USSR sports-men participated in the Olympics for the first time only 16 years after that, in summer 1952, in Helsinki. When Adolf Hitler fired the Olympic torch in his capital, representatives of the Soviet Union didn’t in any way participate in work of the International Olympic Committee…
Since August 1 till 16, 1936 Olympics in Berlin were taking place. Nuremberg laws had been effective for about a year already. Some mem-bers of Jewish communities timidly called out for boycotting that Olympic Games. Was it possible? It was, if it was desired. We should remember that in 1980 the USA boycotted Games in the USSR due to some political reasons, which were invasion of Soviet troops to Afghanistan. Suggest that the Nuremberg laws were accepted not in the Nazi Germany, but in the USSR. Would this be enough to boycott the Olympics-80? Sure! This reason would be much more fundamental than the Afghani one. There could be such a splash in Mass Media, and so many tears could be squeezed out of Western population…
So, why weren’t the Olympics boycotted in 1936? Because the principle worked, he’s a villain, but he is our villain. That is why the Committee for putting the Olympics XI off Berlin, summoned in New York, didn’t succeed. The International Olympic Committee sent the Board to the Reich capital, and members of that Board didn’t discover anything that could have nega-tively affected the Olympic Movement1. Neither oppression of the Jews,
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To understand how weird it was that Berlin was chosen the Olympic Games host city, think of the present day. Sochi became the host city of the Winter Olympic Games 2014, though it had two competitors, Salzburg and Pyeongchang. 10 cities but Berlin claimed to host the Olympic Games 1936, but Germany won.
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nor insane racist laws were noticed. That is politics. Even today we can see how fighters for human rights cynically and extremely uncovered notice only what is advantageous to those, who financially support them, and pay no attention to things which they don’t need to see…
And the Olympics were held, indeed! Flags with swastika soared high in the stadiums, and hearts of Germans were filled with pride for their country and respect, and gratitude to Adolf Hitler. When he appeared in Opening of the Games, everyone rose. Their right hands were thrown up in Nazi salute. Members of the International Olympic Committee in their black costumes and with golden chains on their chests were standing next to Hitler. Walls trembled with deafening “Sieg Heil!”.
For some reason the international community failed to notice that they were still using a caliper to find true Aryans in the Olympic Games host city
It was beautiful, colossal and dramatic. From here the legend about the Fьhrer who knew everything better than anyone and never made mistakes originated. Indeed, it was his tough will that recovered the spirit of the na-tion and took it from one victory to another1. This emotional burst of Ger-man citizens played into Hitler’s hands, when it was time to start the war…
Even results of the Olympics played into Hitler’s hands. German sportsmen won in the team scoring, as they got 89 medals; Americans took the second place with 56 medals, and Italians took the third place with 22 medals.
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Closing the Games, the Chairman of the IOC Pierre de Coubertin said many good words about hosts of the Olympics, “…Mutual understanding shall light blind hatred. Thus, the building I have been constructing for half a century shall be reinforced. You the athletes don’t forget the flame which the Sun has fired and which came to you from Olympia to lighten and warm our epoch. Keep it earnestly in the depth of your soul, so that it would be able to reappear at the other end of the World…”1
There were no claims in regard to level of Games organization. The Hit-lerite Germany was steadily entering the global scene. However, the story of how the insane Fьhrer could have been stopped, but nobody wanted it to happen, wouldn’t be complete without one more detail. Sponsors of Hitler wanted to please him so much that they manage to performed a true miracle. Something happened in regard to the Olympic Games, which had never happened before and would hardly ever happen again.
Not only the summer, but also the winter Olympic Games took place in Germany in 1936!
It took place on February 6 to 16 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. How come? Never in the history of sports were Olympic Games held twice a year in one country. It turns out that Hitler was once again played along by France, which all of a sudden refused to hold the Winter Olympics. Being in a rather tight situation, the IOC agreed to Hitler’s proposal and trusted his country to hold the second Olympics in the same year.
Why so? Those who wish to find some tough political logics behind weird facts, would say it happened because he managed the first Olympics so well. This is a convenient explanation, no doubt. But it is false. The IV Winter Olympics, which the French almost “scuttled”, took place before the summer one. Why so much trust in Hitler? He hadn’t held the Games yet and hadn’t proven he was good at that. However, the Nuremberg laws and Amendments to them had been applied for long. Though, no one paid attention to such minor things, when the great new crushing of Russia was being prepared… So, how many times could Hitler have been stopped? I haven’t counted.
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Let the historians do it, they need some grounds to defend their theses.
Your astonishment from the choice of place to hold the Olympics may have settled. Now you might be not surprised that the IOC decided to hold the next Olympics in… Tokyo. Well, there is nothing weird about it, Russia is a large country, and someone had to crush it from the Asian wing.
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We shall only recall one more way how the main criminal in the history of humanity could have been stopped.
When Hitler was condemned for the Beer Hall Putsch, he was not only sentenced to five years in prison. There was another measure of punish-ment due for him. He should have been exiled from Germany after that. Though, miraculously the judges “forgot” to put that in his sentence, despite the Law on the Republic Protection ordered to do so1. And if this “prisoner of conscience” would have been exiled from the country, the global history might have developed in an absolutely different way. The point is that in that case Hitler may have never returned to German lands.
He had Austrian citizenship!
Actually, the NSDAP leader was a Gastarbeiter. He came to Germany and worked there as a leader of the Nazi party, not a janitor or a painter, but it didn’t change anything. The Austrian Hitler should have been exiled to Austria and prohibited from returning to the German lands. And that would be it! A new fuhrer should have been looked for.
Hitler himself understood it pretty well. It was the second time when he could have been ruined because of his passport. For the first time the mat-ter of exile of the bothersome Austrian was raised in 1922 by the Bavarian Minister of Internal Affairs Schweyer. That time Hitler was protected by the leader of Social-Democrats Erhard Auer, who referred to “principles of freedom and democracy”2.
Was the reputable proponent sane? Didn’t he go mad? Could he have been afraid of an international row?3
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No, everything was correct. Let’s remember the troubled story of the German Revolution in 1918, Social-Democrats signing cessation of hostili-ties, which looked more than capitulation, elective carrousel till the very end, profitable for the Nazi. All of this were done by Social-Democrats. They
Geiden, K. Way of the NSDAP. Fьhrer and His Party. P. 216.
Fest, J. Hitler. V. 1. P. 255.
Surely, there wouldn’t have been a row. The British would simply have to start looking for a new man to take the part of the future fuhrer. Hitler was only perspective and interesting to those, who was planning and creating “the German fascism”. For everyone else Hitler didn’t exist, and almost nobody knew him. The Brockhaus encyclopedia, issued in spring 1923, vaguely described the German politician “George Hitler”, and the only article in “Times” of London (before the Beer Hall Putsch) called him “Hintler” (Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. Lost years. P. 66).
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didn’t do it by mistake, they did it on the order of British special services. They were ordered to help Hitler to stay in the Fatherland. If he was exiled and didn’t lead Germany, who would attack Russia? Who would order to kill the Jews in gas chambers? Who would order to annihilate millions of “infe-rior Slavonians” and create an artificial lake in the place of Leningrad? Such useful politician should remain and be supported. So, Social-Democrats were helping the one, who would send them to concentration camps for “reeducation”…1
Adolf the Gastarbeiter didn’t want to take risks again, and soon after leaving the prison in 1925 he refused his Austrian citizenship. And it became even more interesting after that.
Till 1932 Hitler was a stateless citizen!2
By the way, that was the reason that the Fьhrer had never become a Deputy of the Nazi faction in Reichstag.
So, how could Hitler have been stopped? It could have been done in a very simple way, as a person without German citizenship couldn’t stand for posts of the Chancellor and the President.
If Hitler hadn’t been provided with German citizenship, he wouldn’t have been able to head the German Reich!
Granting or not-granting of citizenship is in jurisdiction of the state and its commanding authorities. This process can be retarded or totally blocked. Within assets of the bureaucratic system there is always a possible reason for the delay or refusal. And properly speaking, there was a reason, and it was a rather valid one, as this competitioner was accused of attempting the revolution.
However, right before he came to power the Fьhrer got his precious citizenship on February 22, 19323. Not earlier and not later, but just in time…
If many persons and political forces are considered as independent political subjects, their activities may seem really stupid. Not without reason German Social-Democrats were called Social-traitors in the Stalin’s USSR, and German communists were prohibited to side with them.
Melnikov, D., Chernaya, L. Criminal Number One. P. 98.
Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 190.
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