An Original German Olympic Games, Berlin 1936 Olympiad Enamel and Gilt Badge

A very rare survivor from a most historically significant event!
Genuine official visitors badge, depicting the brandenberg gate and the Olympiad five rings, from the pre WW11 Olympic Games ,1936, which were intended to promote Aryan ideals. It is made from gilded metal with white enamel decoration. The badge is marked on its face ''Xl Olymiade Berlin 1936'' and on the rear Ges Gesch with a makers mark. Condition is very good in line with age and use with very light surface wear, no loss of original enamel gilt etc.

"The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. It also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die."

— Adolf Hitler, commenting on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games

The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona at the 29th International Olympic Committee meeting on 26 April 1931. The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the IOC gathered to vote in a city bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games.

To outdo the 1932 Los Angeles Games, Chancellor Adolf Hitler had a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium built, as well as six gymnasiums and other smaller arenas. The Games were the first to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries.2 Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million.2 Her film, titled Olympia, pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports.

Hitler saw the 1936 Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and antisemitism, and the official Nazi Party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter, wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games. German Jewish athletes were barred or prevented from taking part in the Games by a variety of methods, although some female swimmers from the Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna did participate. Jewish athletes from other countries were said to have been sidelined to avoid offending the Nazi regime. Lithuania was expelled from the Olympic Games due to Berlin's position regarding Lithuanian anti-Nazi policy, particularly because of the 1934–35 Trial of Neumann and Sass in Klaipėda.

The photos in the gallery {not included} include Jesse Owens winning one of his four gold medals, and the Hindenberg flying over the stadium.

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