In today’s Observer newspaper a headline
‘Police plan pre-emptive
arrests to stop disruption at Olympics’
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| Olympic flame in Berlin |
In
July 1936 the Gestapo organised a round-up of asocials from the streets of
Berlin and copies of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer newspaper were withdrawn from
display in the city. Anti-Jewish notices were removed from the city in an attempt
to lower public displays of anti-semitism in preparation for the Olympics in
August.
Bibliography
The
Years of Persecution - Saul Friedlander, Orion Books 1998
Blood
and Banquets – Bella Fromm, Touchstone 1992
The
Architecture of Oppression – Paul B Jaskot, Routledge 2000
Standing saluting stiff armed in direction of London singing the Horst Wessel song
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