Hitler & Nazis used Olympic Games for their geopolitical agenda. Berlin, Germany was awarded the summer games in 1931, before Hitler took power. However, Hitler "inherited" the 1936 games from the Weimar Republic he supplanted in 1933. Hitler's regime was still a relatively young. And even though it was a dictatorship, it was very important for Hitler to build popular support, especially among young people who had been so important to the growth of the Nazi movement. Of course, sports and the Olympics were good ways to do that. And so the 1936 Berlin Olympics became a propaganda showcase for Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler's rule. Initially skeptical, Hitler changed his mind after Joseph Goebbels, the minister for public enlightenment and propaganda, highlighted the opportunity to present the "master race" image to the world. The Nazis temporarily toned down public displays of antisemitism during the Games, removing signs that forbade Jews f