Hope dies last. Finally, hope dies.
Which Olympic Games did really answer the expectations of being the "harbinger of peace"? Does anybody need a reminder of the Olympic Games of Berlin, 1936? The Nazis' preparation of the war, which they started three years later, was in full swing, and tens of thousands of German citizens were unable to enjoy the games because they were disenfranchised, locked up in concentration camps, murdered or coerced to emigrate.

Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that — so...

Hope dies last. Finally, hope dies.
Which Olympic Games did really answer the expectations of being the "harbinger of peace"? Does anybody need a reminder of the Olympic Games of Berlin, 1936? The Nazis' preparation of the war, which they started three years later, was in full swing, and tens of thousands of German citizens were unable to enjoy the games because they were disenfranchised, locked up in concentration camps, murdered or coerced to emigrate.

Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that — some observers at the time claimed — might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny. With the conclusion of the Games, Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other “enemies of the state” accelerated, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.
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