"The shirt shows a man wearing a laurel wreath, the quadriga chariot drawn by four horses atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and core details like the dates and location of the Summer Games in the capital. It's part of a collection of shirts for each of the modern-era Games, but, nonetheless, references probably the most politically contentious ones. There are no references to Hitler's government or its symbols and iconography on the shirt."
"The Games had already been awarded to Germany before the Nazis came to power, but hosting both the winter and summer events in 1936 provided Hitler's regime with a stage to showcase the government and country internationally. Technological advancements like television and radio enabled the propaganda-reliant regime to double down on these efforts, with Joseph Goebbels paying particular attention to the event."
An Olympic online-store T-shirt reproduces imagery from the 1936 Berlin Games, showing a laurel-wreathed man, the Brandenburg Gate quadriga, dates and location, without Nazi symbols. The 1936 Winter and Summer Games offered the Nazi regime a global stage; Joseph Goebbels used emerging television and radio to amplify propaganda. The 1936 program included the modern-era's first Olympic torch relay, later commemorated by the IOC online in 2020 using archival Nazi footage, which generated public backlash. In preparation for hosting, authorities removed antisemitic graffiti, evicted people deemed 'undesirables' from the capital, and softened overt racist rhetoric while repression escalated elsewhere.
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