To expect sportsmanship from the Nazis is impossible.

For they obtained power by treachery, violence and bloodshed.

To regard these men as true guardians of sports.

To turn the Olympic Games over to their administration is to invite the possible.

That the Olympic Games shall be fouled.

The manual seller.

In 1936, both the Winter and Summe Olympics were held in Germany.

Hitler saw an opportunity to show the world a reinvigorated allegedly peace loving country.

Its jobless rat slashed by public works programs and massive, rapid rearmament.

Some in Europe and America had threatened to boycott the games because of the Nazi treatment of Jews.

But Avery Brundage, the president of the American Olympic Committee who privately admired Hitler and personally disliked Jews, urged Americans not to be swept up in what he called a Jew.

Nazi altercation.

Congressman Celler denounced Brundage as the Nazis willing dupe.

On March 7th, 1936, less than three weeks after the Winter Olympics, Hitler sent some 30,000 troops into the Rhineland, a German region that had provided a buffer between Germany and France, which, according to the Treaty of Versailles, was to remain demilitarized.

Thousands of German speaking residents lined the roads to cheer them.

The Führer is immensely happy, Joseph Goebbel noted in his diary that night.

France won't take action.

England remains passive and America uninterested.

At the same time, Berlin was being transformed into a colossal stage set for the Summer Olympics.

Some 1500 reporters were expected from all over the world, and the Nazi regime made sure that they would see only what it wanted to see.

They remove every sign forbidding Jews entry to restaurants, kept anti-Semitic publications off newsstands, and ordered newspapers not to report anti-Semitic incidents.

They also rounded up and interned several hundred Roma and Sinti people, often derogatorily referred to as gypsies.

We must be more charming than the Parisians, Goebbels told Berliners.

More easygoing than the Viennese, more cosmopolitan than the Londoners, and more practical than New Yorkers.

But anti-Nazi Germans managed to slip between the pages of a popular guidebook, a map peppere with the locations of the scores of jails and prisons and concentration camps in which the regime's enemies had been safely locked away.

Still the Nazi genius for propaganda and pageantry overcame most visitors doubts.

The daily spectacle was breathtakin in its beauty and magnificence.

The stadium was a tournament of color.

The court, the throat, the massed splendor of the banners made the gaudy decorations of America's great parades, presidential inaugurations and world's fairs seem like shoddy carnivals in comparison.

Thomas was.

The Nazis were pleased when German athletes amassed the most medals.

But when Jesse Owens set three Olympic records and won four gold medals, they were appalled.

That's a scandal, Goebbels wrote.

White humanity should be ashamed.

In the future, Hitler assured his inner circle the Olympics would always b held in Berlin, and no primitive men would ever again be allowed to take part.

U.S.

Ambassador William Dodd had not been fooled by the Nazi pageantry and kept his distance from the games.

Germany's Jews, he informed Washington, were anticipating the withdrawal of the world's attention with fear and trembling.

Once the visitors had left, the Nazis resumed their indoctrination of the German people.

We must bring up a new type of human being, Hitler had proclaimed.

We have undertake to give the Germans an education that begins with the chil and ends with the old fighter.

His portrait hung in every school room.

Small children were mad to recite poems in his praise.

Children's books were filled with venomous caricature of Jews.

Millions of adolescents were made to join the Hitler Youth.

Parents of children who refused to join were invested.

Gated, fired.

Sometimes imprisoned.