Nazi Aesthetic (Olympics Berlin 1936)

It is a widely held belief that the Church did not aid Hitler’s regime and were innocent bystanders. Others say that the Church indirectly contributed to Hitler’s agenda with their anti-Jewish doctrines. The Jews, however, were not only victimized by Nazis but also Christians. Christian authorities’ reactions to the Holocaust and how they reacted to accusations of blame are very vague. This topic is important because it explores how the people of a major religion abandoned the most basic teachings and morals of that religion. Christianity’s and Pope Pius’ role in the Holocaust still remains to this day remains very controversial.

Adolf Hitler wanted the Jewish race to be destroyed forever. But he didn’t just stop at beliefs. Even if you were a Christian, Catholic, Atheist, etc., you were still in danger. You were still in danger because if you looked Jewish to him then you were swooped up and taken hostage in a concentration camp.

In the Church, the Nazis had a powerful rival for control of the hearts and minds of the German people. The Nazis have created a group called “German Christians” to promote the Nazi ideas within the church. "We want a vital national Church that will express all the spiritual forces of our people,"[ ] stated one German Christian document from 1933. In November 1933, Hitler attempted to exclude the ‘non Aryans’ from the church attendance and also implemented the removal of the Old Testament (dubbed by the

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.

"I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." (Wiesel 81) He made the Jews lose hope in themselves, their religion, their family, and most of all lose faith in their god. “And in spite myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God who I no longer believed in.”

During the Nazi German era, which took place from 1933 until 1945, Christianity played a very important role in the rise of Hitler’s regime. The Christian churches greatly influenced not only the formation of the Nazi regime, but also the German folk. The most influential churches were the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church. Even though Christianity itself faced a state of decline in the early 1930s, the higher clergy of the Christian churches in Germany still managed to make a significant impact. The amount of influence that the churches exerted can be measured not only through the impact of their resistance towards the Nazis, but conversely through the resistance carried out by

The 1936 Berlin Olympics, also known as the Nazi Olympics, was one of the most politically charged events in world history. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, did not originally want to host the Olympic games. But, after much persuasion from his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, by saying that hosting the Olympics would be an excellent way to show off the Aryan race’s superiority over others, Hitler agreed.(“Nazi Olympics Tangled Sports and Politics”) The decision to hold the games led to over one hundred countries participating that year, including the United States. The U.S. knew how poorly the Nazis were treating Jewish people and other minorities. They were fully aware that the Nazis were using the Olympics as propaganda to make themselves seem peaceful, but chose to participate anyway. This decision was a poor one.

The 1936 Hitler Olympics were hosted in Berlin, Germany. It signaled the return of Germany to the world community after its isolation in the aftermath of defeat in WWI. Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist militaristic character, while hosting the summer Olympics. It also served to promote the myth of “Aryan”. Nazi’s claimed to control all aspects of German life and also extended to sports.

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, also known as the “Nazi Olympics”, was a milestone in the history of the world. All of the attention of the Olympics that year was focused on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. In 1933, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became leader of Germany and quickly turned the nation's democracy into a one-party dictatorship. He took thousands of political opponents, holding them without trial in concentration camps. The Nazis also set up a program to strengthen the Germanic Aryan population. They began to exclude all one-half million Jews from the population, and German life. As part of the drive to "purify" and strengthen the German population, a 1933 law permitted physicians to perform forced

Hitler did not go to church so much but used to follow and read the bible. He was a catholic and his party symbol came from a stone he used to walk past in the school where he used to study. Most of his ideas and values came from the German Christian movement in which he was in it. Many thought that he is not a Christian and his ideas and values are hurting the community and he revolted against the priests who thought that his political ideas are not good and helpful. All this issues did not affect his belief of the bible and he continued to follow it. Hitler became anti-Semitic through the education through the monastery school where he studied from. The Catholic priests were the ones who put hatred of Jews in Hitler’s mind. All along the

Adolf loos was super against the ornament in the building, as he said “Ornament was like crime”. He believed that art is erotic, as the text stated “The modern man who tattoos himself is either a criminal or a degenerate.” (p19). This indicates

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After the Germans loses in World War I, the American government was in control of the art of expressionism that is occurring in Germany at the same time. Reality for them was intolerable and therefore to escape this insufferable reality, they turned to arts. This reality was the fact that after their loss, they were traumatised by it and could not fathom the fact of their economic depression, the colonising of American culture and their politics. They used this arts to express their inner feelings and that is why German expressionism is associated with the human emotions.

The most widely known aspects of Nazi ideology are their hatred of Jewish people and their tireless efforts to exterminate the entire race during their rule. This distinctly Nazi belief of antisemitism is not one that the Nazis created. It instead had existed for several thousand years throughout Germany and all of Europe. As Stackelberg and Winkle explain, “The origins of the stereotype of Jews as immoral materialists can be traced to the unwillingness of Jews to give up their religion in favor of world-renouncing Christianity” (Stackelberg and Winkle, Anti-Semitism, p. 2). This feeling of hatred towards Jews persisted for centuries, especially in countries that had a majority of Christian citizens. There were a number of people that continually perpetuated these anti-Semitic views with the works that they published and their actions towards Jews. A great

World War II was a war that was forever etched in history as a result of it destruction and overwhelming body count. But who would have thought that this war would have found a way to impact art before it’s time. Before Hitler rose to power, he used the civil war in Spain around 1936 as his personal field test. In response, arts took to their trade to cope with their frustration and express their opinions. Then as war was on the verge of beginning, Hitler stole modern art from Jewish artists and put them in his own show. His show was titled “Degenerate Art,” and it portrayed the artist as demented people who were a hindrance to society. He felt sane people were incapable of producing such abstract art. He went on to sponsor another