CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now stands.

The 1936 Olympic Games weren’t just about athletics — they were a calculated performance. Hitler used the event to present Nazi Germany as peaceful, modern, and respectable. Anti-Semitic signs vanished,

Since their revival in 1896, the Olympic Games have served as a global stage for international politics, despite the International Olympic Committee’s claims of political neutrality.

BERLIN — Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin sports minister Iris Spranger on Tuesday said the city wants to put on a sustainable Olympic ...

Rudolph Ball is the forgotten Jewish athlete from the 1936 Winter Olympics. Ball, better known as Rudi, was the star player, a right-winger, on Germany’s ice hockey team that competed in the Winter Games held in the twin cities of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps.