Helene Mayer, a talented fencer whose father was Jewish, was selected to represent Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin only after considerable political wrangling. The International Olympic Committee insisted that a Jewish athlete be placed on the German team as proof that Jews were not being denied the opportunity to compete, and the German Olympic Committee, which was then under the control of Nazi Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten, was hesitant to make such a concession. Only under threat of a cancellation of the Games did Germany finally allow Mayer, a statuesque blonde with a Christian mother,
Berlin 1936 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Berlin that took place August 1–16, 1936. The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The 1936 Olympics were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to international debate about a boycott of the Games. Fearing a mass boycott, the International Olympic Committee pressured the German government and received assurances that qualified Jewish athletes would be part of the German team and that the Games would
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Will be safer from indignities here than they would be on any new york subway during rush hour, unquote. then you see the subhead there, no anti-semitism. yes, i m talking about germany in 1936. i tell you about helene mayer and how she served as the way the nazi german government could pretend in 1936 to be something other than the monsters they were because the chinese government seems to have learned from her example. on friday the torch for the beijing olympic games was lit by two athletes, one of whom was a cross-country skier for the chinese team, a woman whom the chinese government says has ancestral roots in the ethnic muslim minority, the uyghurs. the uyghurs, a minority in china, who are oppressed, who are tortured, who are interned
By the chinese government in the jinjang region. the chinese government forces them to be sterilized. the chinese government is committing genocide against the uyghurs. it s an accusation the chinese government denies, of course, despite clear evidence of their atrocities, so clear that the u.s. and other countries are currently diplomatically boycotting the beijing olympic games. so helene mayer in 1936 and this athlete in 2022 are being used to serve the same purpose. now, the governments are not fooling anyone who is paying attention, but their roles in the olympics allow the folks who are willing to put their morality on hold, the avery brundages of the world, to pretend otherwise. we ve seen this play out before. the embarrassing double standard that the nba and hollywood, for example, regularly display when righteously calling out