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What was the political climate in Germany pre Olympics in 1936?

In world war one, Germany had together with the rest of the allies lost the bloody and long war, which resulted in an aggressive and harsh treaty of Versailles including massive reparations, loss of territory, disarmament, losing navy and other armed forces, loss of all colonies and loss of more than 10% of their land .

Germany was left in ruins, poverty, anger, and unemployment. The high amount of reparations led to a Germany in high debt, needing to borrow money predominantly from the US to survive. She had no wealth to rebuild ruined buildings etc. The growing debt was resulting in inflation, which in the end resulted in quick hyperinflation, introducing the one billion-mark …show more content…
I have chosen to make a source criticism analysis of the book “Hitlers Olympiske Lege ∙ Berlin 1936” written by Christopher Hilton. Christopher Hilton was born on September 29, 1944 and died on November 28, 2010. He started his career at The Journal as a journalist, and later he was a former sportswriter. In 1990, he started writing his own books. The recipients are people who may be interested in knowledge within the games in 1936, and the book describes the time leading to the Olympics in 1936 and the athletes later.
I read the Danish edition, which is a translation of the original version “Hitler’s Olympics ∙ The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games”. The original book was written in 2006 and based on interviews with spectators and athletes, who attend the Olympics in 1936, as well as articles, diaries and reports. It is therefore a secondary source building on official and personal sources. When it comes to the trustworthiness, it can be discussed how reliable the book is considering that it was written 70 years after the event, though some of the reports, letters and diaries were written during and shortly after the Olympics in 1936 . However, the interviews done in the twenty-first century are probably affected by the present day’s vision on Nazism, Jews and blacks, and several details are lost by time. Even though Christopher Hilton tries to be as objective as possible, we …show more content…
The president for the IOC, however, travelled to Berlin to announce to Hitler that during the Olympics the area belongs to IOC, and that Hitler therefore only was a guest and only allowed to declare the Olympics in Berlin opened – all together only the standard announcement accumulated into 16 words; “I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era.” Kilde John Idorns side 60. The reason for only letting presidents or other political leaders use the standard 16 words opening speech is due to the fact that the Olympic committee wants to keep sport and politics

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