As the 2024 Paris Olympics quickly approach, the new book PLAYED: The Games of the 1936 Berlin Olympics illustrates just how significant and historic the sporting world can be. We talk to co ...

The 1936 Olympic Games were scheduled for Germany — the summer in Berlin and the winter in Garmisch-Partenkirchen — and the Olympic Committee knew that Adolf Hitler would use them to ...

This week's episode of iHeartRadio podcast Revisionist History dives into the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin which Hitler himself attended for the sole purpose of propaganda.

Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympic Games. The presentation took place in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis.

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. | Fox Photos/GettyImages In 1932, Berlin, Germany, won the bid to host the 1936 Summer Olympics. But the country’s political situation took an ...

The 1936 Summer Olympics are widely seen as the Games most used for propaganda purposes, with Hitler commissioning Leni Riefenstahl to make the propaganda film Olympia about the games.

Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and long jump. On the latest episode of ...

From a silver cup to a collection of papers, here are some of the most expensive pieces of Olympic memorabilia ever sold at auction.

Eight years later in Berlin, the Olympic flame and Olympic torch relay was introduced at the 1936 Summer Games.

The Olympics are the pinnacle of an athletic career. More than 100 of the world's best athletes have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, but only a select few have earned a spot on ...

Olympic Moments That Ring True as Some of the Most Memorable in History Celebrate the 2024 Paris Olympics by recalling historic moments from past Games.