1936 Summer Olympics

he 1936 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona Spain on 26 April 1931 at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona (two years before the Nazis came to power). It marked the second and final time that the International Olympic Committee would gather to vote in a city which was bidding to host those Games. The only other time this occurred was at the inaugural IOC Session in Paris France on 24 April 1894. Then Athens and Paris were chosen to host the 1896 and 1900 Games respectively. To outdo the Los Angeles games of 1932 Germany built a new 100000-seat track and field stadium six gymnasiums and many other smaller arenas. They also installed a closed-circuit television system and radio network that reached 41 countries with many other forms of expensive high-tech electronic equipment. Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a favourite of Adolf Hitler was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for 7 million. Her film titled Olympia pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports