we re bringing you a conversation about the 1936 olympics held in nazi berlin. there are so many compelling stories from this moment in history ranging from the personal experience of athletes to the german government s campaign to camouflage its discriminatory policies. please join me in welcoming today s guests. first dr. damien thomas, who is the sports curator at the national museum of african-american history and culture. hi, damian, good morning. good morning. thank you for having me. i m excited to participate in this conversation. glad to have you on and maybe sometime we ll actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. our other guest is my former colleague dr. daniel green. danny is president of the newberry library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museum s current special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. an
1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. and so we re glad to bring him back to share some of that knowledge. hi danny i had no. thanks. how are things in chicago? things are all right. as much as anywhere. we ask you our viewers to please post your questions for our experts in the comment section and we ll get to as many of them live in the course of the show as we are able. also if you experience any technical glitches during the course of the show, don t worry about it. don t stress it will be available to view on demand immediately after we conclude. so, how did germany come to host the olympics in 1936 it actually predates the nazi era in 1931. germany was awarded the right to host the 1936 olympic games, which was a very powerful signal it signaled its returned to good standing in the international community following the first world war. in 1933 nazi party leader. adolf hitler was appointed chancellor and his government quickly transformed germany s fragile democracy in
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