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{{1936 Summer Olympics}}
The '''1936 Summer Olympics''' ({{lang-de|Olympische Sommerspiele 1936}}), officially the '''Games of the XI Olympiad''' ({{lang-de|Spiele der XI. Olympiade}}) and officially branded as '''Berlin 1936''', was an international [[multi-sport event]] held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in [[Berlin]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over [[Barcelona]] at the 29th [[IOC Session]] on 26 April 1931, two years before the [[Nazi Party]] rose to power in Germany. The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the [[International Olympic Committee]] gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games.
To outdo the [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932 Los Angeles Games]], ''Reichsführer'' [[Adolf Hitler]] had [[Olympiastadion (Berlin)|a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium]] built, as well as six gymnasiums and other smaller arenas. The Games were the first to be [[Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow|televised]], with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries.<ref name="ReferenceA">Rader, Benjamin G. "American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports" --5th Ed.</ref> Filmmaker [[Leni Riefenstahl]] was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> Her film, titled ''[[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]]'', pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports.
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