1936 Olympic Games
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The Olympic Games are meant to represent peace, unity and international friendship. In 1972, however, the Munich Olympics became the scene of one of the most shocking terrorist attacks in modern history. On September 5, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, entered the Olympic Village and attacked the Israeli delegation. By the…
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Not every Dutch Jewish person who died during the Second World War was a victim of the Holocaust. Some Jewish Dutchmen died as combatants while serving alongside Allied forces and fighting against Nazi Germany. Their deaths occurred on the battlefield, rather than as a result of Nazi persecution and extermination policies. On 19 August 1944,the…
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A Spontaneous Act of Impulse On August 15, 1936, during the Summer Olympics in Berlin, officials, athletes, and spectators witnessed an unusual and unforgettable moment. At the men’s 1500-metre freestyle swimming final, a 43-year-old American tourist named Carla de Vries from Norwalk, California, made her way close to Hitler’s box. Clad in a red hat,…
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(Originally posted 1 August 2018) It is safe to say that the Olympic Games are the biggest sporting event. Every four years, the event attracts the attention of hundreds of millions of sports enthusiasts and people with very little interest in sports, for aside from the sports, it is also entertainment, especially the opening ceremony.…
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It’s hard to believe that the only time the Olympics were held in the Netherlands, was nearly 100 years ago at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. One of the competing Dutch athletes was Ben Bril. Ben (Barend) Bril was born on 16 July 16 1912, in Amsterdam, the host city for the 1928 Summer Olympics. He…
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The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games , was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin. 1936 is the last year in which the Summer and Winter…
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The 1936 Olympic summer games are a well-documented event. However, the 1936 Winter Olympics was not commonly discussed, yet it was just as controversial and steeped in propaganda as the summer games. From February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. It was held six months…
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936Date: 6–16 FEBRUARY sources https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/garmisch-partenkirchen-1936 https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/?mode=galleryu0026amp;view=horizontalu0026amp;q=16%20februariu0026amp;rows=25u0026amp;page=1
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The SS established the Neuengamme concentration camp on December 13, 1938.It would become the biggest concentration camp in Northwest Germany.In excess of 100,000 inmates would come through Neuengamme and its sub camps. The death toll totaled approximately 42,900: about 14,000 in the main camp, 12,800 in the subcamps, and 16,100 during the death marches. These…
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A caterpillar sneaks into a gate. It looks around and sees empty barracks. It is there for the next phase in its life. It really is something magical, a miracle of nature—from hairy caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. The butterfly emerges, it has been more than two years since it was a caterpillar. It flies…
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