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You are biding on a lot of 23 cards that were issued for the olympics held in Germany in 1936. These are from the Olympia 1936 - Band I and Band II sets and one from the Olympia 1932 set. Cards are 3 1/8 by 4 5/8 inches and while condition varies, most are in good to better condition. Some of the cards included show shot put, kayak, Avery Brundage, 100 meter, wrestling, fencing, horsemanship, hurdles, cyling, and more. One I found truly interesting showed a Helene Mayer German fencing champion in full hiel salute. The irony is that she was a German Jew that was allowed to compete due to a campaign led by Avery Brundage. Those interested further can read the following: Early in 1931, two years before the Nazis were voted into office, as a conciliatory gesture, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1936 summer games to Berlin. At the time, Hitler called the Olympics a charade and found insulting the idea of competing with "inferior non-Aryans." Nazi spokesman, Bruno Malitz, in a letter sent to every sports club in Germany, condemned modern sports because they were international, "infested with Frenchmen, Belgians, Pollacks and Jew-Niggers." A Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, denounced the Games as "an infamous festival dominated by Jews." After winning office, Hitler suddenly did an about-face and saw the games as a unique opportunity to promote the Third Reich. Having already exhibited a flair for showmanship and pageantry unknown at the time, Hitler decided to make the Olympics a showcase for the extraordinary emphasis the Nazis placed on male physical conditioning and strength, adding a mythic link to ancient Greek supermen. The state began an unprecedented takeover of all sport facilities which then proceeded to exclude Jews. A Nazi decree declared, " . . . to gag the Jewish agitation from abroad . . . Jews (without any close contact with non-Jews) . . . are allowed to practice until the Olympics of 1936 . A general regulation for Jewish sports will come out after the end of the Olympics." Schwartze Korps (Black Corps), an official paper put out by Hitler's bodyguards, announced on July 3, 1935 "that t was criticism of the fact that in Berlin a group of Jewish women competed with a group of sports women of the police sports clubs of Berlin. We have investigated this fact and are glad to announce that all the members who have participated in this game have been excluded from German sports organizations." On August 6, 1935, the Reich Sport Commissar announced that sports clubs in Germany would set aside the month of October for teaching anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws of September 15, 1935 deprived Jews of citizenship--they became stateless in the land of their birth. Food stores and pharmacies refused to sell Jewish people basic goods and citizens were forbidden to shop in stores owned by Jews. Led by the United States, citizens of Canada, Great Britain and France, massive protests among sports, newspaper, educational, church, labor and political figures pressured for a boycott of the Olympic Games. The boycotters argued that the 1936 Olympiad had been bestowed on the Weimar Republic, a democratic state, was the nation that woactually host the Olympics was the totalitarian Nazi regime. Both the American ambassador to Germany and the head of the U.S. Legation in Vienna opposed the Berlin Olympics. The National Council of the Methodist Church and the American Federation of Labor voiced opposition. Ten thousand people protested at Madison Square Garden. Seventy-five thousand German-American members of the German-American League for Culture asked for the removal of the Games from Berlin. The American Athletic Union received more than 100,000 individual protests. An argument raged for three days at their annual convention, ending with a narrow majority for keeping the Games in Berlin. The persistence of two people was largely responsible for that decision--Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Organization and Helene Meyer , the German ...
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