Olympics accused of selling Nazi propaganda t-shirts

German politicians argue the artwork is inseparable from the Nazi legacy of the 1936 Games and should not be sold without ...

IOC under fire for selling Nazi-era Olympic Games T-shirt

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been slated for selling merchandise commemorating the 1936 Berlin games which Hitler used to showcase his hate-filled ideology.

IOC criticised for selling Nazi-era Olympics T-shirt

The International Olympic Committee defends the T-shirt as being part of its Heritage Collection, celebrating styles from all ...

Olympics T-shirt marking 1936 Berlin Games raises eyebrows

T-shirts on the Olympics online store commemorating past venues include one for the 1936 Games in Berlin. Nazi Germany hosted both the Winter and Summer Olympics that year, as it was starting to ramp ...
WESA

Remembering the call to boycott the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany — and why it failed

As Australia, the United Kingdom and Lithuania join the United States’ diplomatic boycott of the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, we look back at the calls to boycott the 1936 Olympics, which were ...
Opinion

Will Geopolitics Overshadow the Milan Cortina Olympics?

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) smiles as he walks past ice hockey star Alexander Ovechkin (third from left) during a hockey legends team match against students in Sochi on Sept. 1, ...

Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now ...