Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the mid-1930s and immediately set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics ever, the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries from around ...

It is not the first time the Olympic Games have been exploited for political purposes. The most notorious were the 1936 Berlin Olympics, used by Hitler to mask the true nature of a vicious ...

Hitler oversaw a number of momentous innovations to the Games. It was the first Olympics that introduced the torch relay, where a lighted torch is carried from Olympia in Greece to the site of the ...