German chancellor Adolf Hitler (3rd R) arrives on the Berlin stadium to preside the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics 01 August 1936 To the eternal chagrin of Adolf Hitler and his cronies, the ...

Adolf Hitler’s Olympic showcase is stirring controversy nearly 90 years later. The Olympics’ official online shop has sold out of a T-shirt featuring artwork from the 1936 Berlin Games, which Hitler ...

Jesse Owens, one of the most electrifying stars in the history of track and field — and whose record-setting speed and athleticism humiliated Adolf Hitler on the global stage — won his fourth gold ...

GENEVA -- The IOC apologized on Friday and deleted a tweet that some saw as celebrating Nazi Germany's hosting of the 1936 Olympics. Joining a message thread on Thursday, one year before the Olympic ...

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympics again, possibly 100 years after the city hosted the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner is to present bid plans, with help ...

The Olympic silver medal won by Germany's Lutz Long, behind Jesse Owens in the long jump at Berlin 1936, has sold for a record sum ©SCP Auctions The final sum of $488,435 (£429,271/€490,0660) was a ...

Berlin’s state parliament has given the go-ahead for the city’s bid to rehost the Olympic Games on or after the 100th anniversary of the 1936 Games staged by the Nazis. “Our bid is a genuine promise ...

The 30-second clip from the Olympics account came as part of a series of tweets showing videos from previous editions of the Games. It followed the official accounts of the United States and Belgian ...