1936 Berlin Olympics and 1924 Paris Olympics In 1931, the city of Berlin was named as the official site for the 1936 Olympics. During that five-year period, much changed in Germany. Adolf Hitler had pronounced himself Führer. Jews were no longer citizens. The Dachau Concentration Camp was established. Freedom of the press had been abolished. Around the globe, athletic and political groups in many countries expressed concerns about attending the Olympics while Germany was unde

Former Dachau concentration camp   My mother said it was a “numbing experience” to feed concentration camp, or ‘death camp’ survivors when in France in 1945. She had not quite believed the newspaper accounts of German atrocities, dismissing them as propaganda. “Could man be so cruel?” The Dachau Death camp opened on March 22, 1933, initially for political prisoners, but later housed Jews and other prosecuted groups. More than 200,000 were imprisoned there and over 40,000 peop

International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg with Soviet, British, American, and French flags. Nov. 1945   My mother, during a visit to Paris right after VJ Day (Victory in Japan) my mother stumbles upon an investigator working in a small courtroom. He was preparing for the war crimes trials that were planned to be held in Nuremburg, Germany. She was invited in to watch.   Within a matter of months, something historical was about to occur. The Nuremberg Trial would be the fir