T-shirts on the Olympics online store commemorating past venues include one for the 1936 Games in Berlin. Nazi Germany hosted both the Winter and Summer Olympics that year, as it was starting to ramp ...

Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, potentially marking a century since the controversial 1936 Games held under Nazi rule. Mayor Kai Wegner is set to unveil the city's ...

The 1936 Olympic Games weren’t just about athletics — they were a calculated performance. Hitler used the event to present ...

Introduction : a bridge to the ancient Greeks? -- "Faster, higher, stronger" : the modern Olympics from Athens to Amsterdam -- Enter the Nazis -- Boycott Berlin! -- The winter games -- On to Berlin -- ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after Jesse Owens returned home from his snubbing by Adolph Hitler at the 1936 Olympics, he and America’s 17 other black Olympians found a less-than-welcoming reception from ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- In 1936, sports, politics and propaganda collided in Berlin in one of the most controversial Olympic Games ever. The Berlin Games gave us Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in ...

Part of an exhibit being shown at London‘s Royal Opera House during the Olympics — called “The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games”– is dedicated to U.S. track legend Jesse Owens. For good reason: ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 3, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won ...

As a girl, Marlene Hemphill Dortch watched the grainy, black-and-white film footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics in amazement, wondering how her grandfather was so much faster than everyone else.