US EditionOlympics T-shirt marking 1936 Berlin Games raises eyebrows
The shirt replicates a 1936 Berlin Olympics poster featuring Nazi-like imagery and is part of a heritage collection, currently out of stock on the official Olympics website.
- The official Olympics website listed a heritage T‑shirt commemorating the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, first reported by Germany's DW.
- As historians note, for two weeks in August 1936 Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship used the Olympics to project a peaceful, tolerant Germany, camouflaging its racist, militaristic character.
- The shirt reproduces a Franz Wurbel poster showing a laurel-wreathed man, five Olympic rings, a quadriga above the Brandenburg Gate, and the dates Aug. 1–16, 1936.
- The listing appears in the heritage collection the Olympics offers, drawing scrutiny as Nazi authorities temporarily relaxed anti-Jewish measures before the 1936 Berlin Games, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Fencer Helene Mayer, whose father was Jewish, won silver and performed the Nazi salute; nine Jewish athletes won medals while Germany hosted both Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936, including the first Olympic torch relay.
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