Berlin 1936

Live-tweeting the Berlin (Nazi) Olympics from 76 years ago today. A subsidiary of @RealTimeWWII. Questions to @historyreal.

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Although slender masts hard to hit with bombs, Luftwaffe have knocked out Dover's radar base; 1/2 south coast blind. http://t.co/V63sUGlP

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British don't know why Luftwaffe bombed radar masts, not bases- Germans think important sites are underground, ignored flimsy wooden huts.

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Germans have bombed UK radar stations along the south coast; buildings have collapsed, phone lines torn down, airmen & WAAFs dead.

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Marjorie Gestring (USA) has become the youngest gold medallist in history, at women's springboard diving. She's 13. http://t.co/IqRzQ9pf

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Son: "Japan bans our Korean songs, silences our words. But they can't stop me from running. I wept to run under the flag of the Rising Sun"

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Japan conquered Korea 26 years ago, outlawing Korean culture. Son stands on medallists' podium with head bowed, weeping http://t.co/PbCTyEJA

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Sohn Kee-chung has won gold in Olympic marathon for Japan- but he's Korean, forced to compete for a country not his own http://t.co/j2l9UUZX

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Marty Glickman: "I believe our coach was told to drop us from the team, to save Hitler the embarrassment of 2 Jews on the winner's podium."

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US relay team changed at last minute to include Owens, kicking out Sam Stoller & Marty Glickman: only 2 Jewish athletes

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Goebbels: "Americans should be ashamed, letting niggers win medals for them. Still, what does it matter in that country without culture?"

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USA has won men's 400m relay race- giving Jesse Owens an amazing 4th gold medal.

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Norwegian striker Magnar Isaksen scores again: Germany 2-0 down. A furious Hitler (who thinks "Isaac-son" is Jewish) storms out of stadium.

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Norway have scored the 1st goal, just minutes into the match! Goebbels: "The Führer looks very agitated; I'm a real bath of nerves."

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German team thrashed Luxembourg yesterday, 9-0. Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels has lured Hitler with promise of watching an easy victory.

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Germany about to play Norway in Olympic football quarter-finals; in sell-out crowd: Hitler, to see his 1st ever match.

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US journalist William Shirer reports from the Olympics: “These Games are on a lavish scale never before seen- Nazi propaganda has succeeded"

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Mayer: "I do not consider myself Jewish- I am, a Catholic." Nazis still cancelled her state sponsorship & banned her from fencing clubs.

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Nazis have made half-Jewish Mayer & her family German citizens to "prove" their Olympics free of racial discrimination.

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Ilona Elek (HUN) wins gold in women's fencing; 2nd place is Helene Mayer, only German-Jewish athlete- Nazi saluting.

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Stephens: Hitler offering gold medallist a weekend at his Alpine villa. She refuses, "then he pinched my behind & left"