Hitler's Use Of Propaganda In Canada

the time, and the Nazis were in power. Before the Olympics, German Jews had been segregated and

Ever since its inception in 1896, the Modern Olympics has hosted an invisible sport: politics. The Olympics calls for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world,” but politics soon spoiled its biennial message. “As the Olympics continue to dissolve into … a political competition … they no longer … justify the time and trouble,” Dave Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his sports column, wrote in the New York Times in 1984. The Olympic spirit has routinely been used as an outlet for political agendas. With political and Olympic ambitions intersected, the great international sports festivity negatively affects all nations involved.

The olympics were shaped due to social reasons. Document 1’s author, Pierre de Coubertin, who is the founder of the modern Olympics, is a reliable asset to pursuing ideal peace with many other countries. The reason why he wants peace is because he wants to have the “disappearance of war” to be “utopians” which shows that he believes that the olympics one of the best answers to his goal. Similarly, in document 6, the Soviet Union’s Olympic organizing Committee also want to take part with “peace, democracy, and social progress.” This shows how more and more countries, even those with bad ties with others,

Isabella: Hitler believed that his race of people would beat African Americans in the Olympics. Jesse Owens still raced in the Olympics and won four gold medals. It is important because no matter what

The Japanese in the Second World War were perceived as comical, but also dangerous. They were like children with knives, immature and rash but just as dangerous as grown men with knives. The propaganda encourages Canadians to work hard, they use the stereotypical hardworking trait in the Japanese and even threatened that if we could work just as hard we could beat them. When Japanese refugees arrived in Canada they were immediately segregated and discriminated against. With the overwhelming numbers of the Japanese pouring in, they were mistreated frequently. They were hated for their leader’s ideals and actions.

Most people would classify the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936 as just another Olympics, and they would be right because the Games did have the classic triumphs and upsets that occur at all Olympic Games. What most people did not see, behind the spectacle of the proceedings, was the effect the Nazi party had on every aspect of the Games including the results. Despite Nazi Germany’s determination to come off as the superior nation in the 1936 Olympics, their efforts were almost crushed by the very people they were trying to exclude.

Hitler’s opinions against Jews made the Berlin Olympics overwhelmingly moot. Countless departments, for example the NAACP, or the American Athletic Union (AAU) begged athletes not to participate in the Nazi Olympics and to embargo them. Owens firmly held his views of the Olympics by resisting to boycott them. Owens was able to stemmed from his, and a plentiful amount of African American athlete’s, being excluded from the Sugar Bowl, simply due to their skin color. He questioned on why he would shun Germany on something that our own country already does. Consequently, Owens created a great disturbance. But not long after his voice was heard. Numerous African American athlete’s joined his side, shifting the NAACP and AAU’s decisions on boycotting

Be that as it may, one person in particular seemed irritated by Owens success- Adolf Hitler. Hitler refused to shake Owens hand after he won gold, but he did shake the German athletes hands. Hitler found that America letting an African American represent their country to be sickening. African Americans did not fit Hitler’s idea of an aryan race. Even knowing Hitler disliked him and snubbed his wins, Owens did not say any fallacious about Hitler during the Games. In the end, Hitler himself could not stop Owens from leaving Berlin with four gold medals and a newfound

He argued that the Olympic ideal was to be a time-out from war and above politics” (Smith 4).

The Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936 destroyed Hitler’s master race history. "There was very definitely a special feeling in winning the gold medal and being a black man," Woodruff said. "We destroyed [Hitler's] master race theory whenever we started winning those gold medals,” said runner John Woodruff (7). John Woodruff was a black man who won a gold medal. Another African American Jesse Owens won four track and field gold medals. These two people defied the Aryan ideal that Hitler believed that Aryan dominated the world. Another important impact the Olympic brought happened in 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. In that Olympics, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon refused to participate because of a dispute over the Suez Canal; Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands boycotted the Games in protest over the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary; China boycotted the Games because a flag of Taiwan was raised in the Olympic Village. The original purpose of the Olympics was to make the countries collaborate, however, it also brought negative impacts. Another example is that Olympics in Mexico city in 1968. Americans politicised the Games by letting two African Americans, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, represent the United States. Tommie Smith and John Carlos placed first and third in the track and field. During their medal ceremony, they raised a clenched fist above their

The Olympics of 1936 were a very important part of the Nazi takeover. They used the event to display their power and the superiority of the Aryan race. The Nazis tried to say everything was fair about it and all were welcome, but that was not the way it really was. This was only the beginning of the Nazis coming to power and it only got worse from then on.

Hitler originally did not want Jewish athletes or African American athletes to compete in the Games; however when he was faced with a potential boycott from countries including the United States, Great Britain, and France, Hitler reluctantly changed his mind. In order to “clean up” the city for a global audience, Berlin was stripped from anti-Semitism slogans and the police were ordered to remove all Gypsies and place them in the Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp. The main political event that surrounded the 1936 Olympic Games was Hitler’s efforts to prove his theory on racial supremacy. By showcasing Germany’s strong and successful, Hitler hoped it would promote Nazism and show the world that the white race was superior. In order to fulfill the Nazi ideology, all Jewish German athletes (with the exception Helene Mayer, a fencer) were banned from representing Germany during the

The Nazi’s got the largest benefit out of the Olympics in 1936 . Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purpose (ushmm.org) . The United States consider boycotting the olympic games, since participating in the festivity might be considered as support for the Nazi German regime and its anti-semitic politics. The Nazis promoted an image for a new, strong, and united Germany (ushmm.org). However, others argued that the olympics games should not be a reflection of political

The Olympic Games are a set of friendly competitions that bring countries from all around the world together, but many social, political, and economic problems in the past and present including racial and sexual discrimination and apartheid have prevented the Olympic Games from fulfilling their promise to bring countries together.

ABSTRACT: The purity of the Olympics has been smeared by scandal, corruption, boycotts, political disputes and even acts of terrorism. Sadly, politics have taken control of the Olympics and turned it into a political and money-making extravaganza. Olympic boycotts became a way for countries to protest each other. Hitler tried to use the Games to prove his belief of racial superiority. Wars interfered with the Olympics. Bloodshed even covered the Olympics, in the 1972 Munich Games where terrorists killed eleven Israeli Olympic members. Unfortunately, throughout Olympic history, politics have overshadowed the true focus of the Games. They were "intended to unite the countries of the world through friendly competition" not segregate them