To squeeze an extra buck out of The Winter Olympics, the IOC sells t-shirts celebrating Hitler's 1936 Nazi Olympics.

To squeeze an extra buck out of The Winter Olympics, the IOC sells t-shirts celebrating Hitler's 1936 Nazi Olympics.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympics-t-shirt-marking-1936-berlin-games-raises-eyebrows/ar-AA1W8kk5

Thank you for this find @Impertinenzija.

To squeeze an extra buck out of The Winter Olympics, the IOC sells t-shirts celebrating Hitler's 1936 Nazi Olympics.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympics-t-shirt-marking-1936-berlin-games-raises-eyebrows/ar-AA1W8kk5

Thank you for this find @Impertinenzija.

@randahl this can't be real - can it? @Impertinenzija

@randahl @Impertinenzija

There will be another Nazi Olympics in 2028.

@mkoek the story is from DW. They are credible.
@Impertinenzija

@svavar
I find it more likely that Trump will be impeached by then.
@Impertinenzija

@randahl @mkoek Fanatics International haven't pulled the motive from their shop, yet (But they've erased the artist's signature, supposedly one Franz Theodor Würbel, an Austrian living in Berlin. He did postcards and the motive matches his style.): https://shop.olympics.com/de/olympic-games/mens-natural-1936-berlin-games-olympic-heritage-t-shirt/t-10259387+p-0222349001530+z-7-4279097087

Here's a hi res preview on Alamy, clearly depicting the signature: https://www.alamy.de/olympische-sommerspiele-1936-sport-poster-franz-wurbel-kunstler-image437858365.html

@Impertinenzija @randahl isn't that clearly a Nazi image though? The horses are reminiscent of the ones outside Hitler's chancellery: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-two-horses-that-stood-outside-hitler-s-chacellery

@mkoek @randahl Nope, that's a stylization of the Brandenburg Gate, the angel lady's laurel wreath on a stick has an iron cross at it's core and an eagle sitting on top (that's Prussian, as Nazis liked to see themselves as Prussia's successors). But the artist clearly clipped the angel lady's huge wings: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburger_Tor#/media/Datei:Brandenburg_Gate_Quadriga_at_Night.jpg

But the gilded bloke in the background is clearly and purposefully inspired by heroic muscle god Nazi style the way Breker and Riefenstahl did it.

@Impertinenzija @randahl oh I see, thanks

@mkoek @randahl No problem. Even as a German it's not always easy to keep those styles apart. XD

@Impertinenzija @randahl A good reminder for me that I should visit Berlin again. I was last there in 1990! I was 17 and wanted to see with my own eyes that the wall was opened.

@mkoek @randahl That's so awesome. I was just 14 at the time and I was so happy for them. You might remember the Brandenburg Gate (just in case you have seen it) differently, because they de-prussified it in 1958 and then it was re-prussified again, so the laurel got its iron cross and its crowned eagle back (I just learned that today, when I was browsing the gallery I showed you). ^^