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Question

The Olympic Games of Berlin

Group 2

What does the writer mean when he writes that Hitler wanted the Olympics to be "a

athletic plebiscite for the ideals and political aims of the Third Reich "?

Answer

Hitler wanted the Olympics to be a way to showcase the supposed superiority of the Aryan race and the Nazi regime's ideology to the world through athletic competition.

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