Berlin Games (53 page)

Carter, Doris (Australian high jumper)

Catholics: boycott in America as Jewish and Catholic plot; arrest in Düsseldorf; in Nazi Germany

Celler, Edmund (American senator)

ceremony
see
ritual and ceremony

Chamonix, 1924 Games
see
Winter Olympics

Chand, Dhyan (Indian hockey captain);
see also
India, hockey team

Channon, Henry ‘Chips': on German women; meetings with Ribbentrop; at state banquet at Opera House; on Berlin Games; on Goering; meeting with Vansittart; on British embassy party; on Ribbentrop; on Ribbentrop's party; on Goering's party; on Goebbels; on closing ceremony

Channon, Honor

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
(film)

cheating accusations: 1936 Winter Games; Glickman's suspicions of USC team; unfairness in Berlin Games; Berlin Games; by Nazis over African Americans;
see also
drug-taking; gender ambiguity, athletes

Christianity: and Nazism

Christliche Welt

Church leaders: in Nazi Germany

Church, Thomas Langdon (Canadian politician)

Churchill, Winston

Citrine, Sir Walter;
Under the Heel of Hitler
…

Clark, Bob (American athlete)

classical Olympic Games: Germany and; innovations in Modern Games: Olympic flame; Olympic torch relay

Cleveland, Ohio: Owens in

Clinton, Bill: Holm on

Colledge, Cecilia (British figure skater)

Colombia: withdrawal of Olympic team in support of Peru

Columbus, Ohio: racism

communism: Jews associated with; fear of; communist athletes; and the boycott movement, Brundage on; and sport; in
Nazi Germany; Goebbels' meeting with Vansittart; and Spanish civil war; trouble-makers assumed to be communists; admiration of German Reich; Brundage on

concentration camps: Dachau; leaflet on; Odam letter from inmate; Sachsenhausen;
see also
prisons

Condylis, Constantine (Greek athlete)

Confessing Church; and Berlin Games; manifesto; anti-Nazi talks

Cornes, John (British athlete)

Coubertin, Baron Pierre de; on planned 1916 Games; Lewald and Diem as supporters; meeting with Brookes; international congress on revival of Games 1894; and 1896 Games; decision on interval between games and venues; reversed fortunes; respect given to; possible support for boycott of Games; and 1936 Games; and Lewald; and Nobel Peace Prize; bribed to attend Berlin Games; blackmailed by Lewald; message to Berlin Games; on Olympic torch; on propaganda in Olympics

coxless fours

Cranz, Christel (German skier)

Crew, Miss J. (British athlete)

Cripps, Sir Stafford

Croll, June: on Wortmann letter

Cromwell, Dean (American track coach)

cross-country run: in pentathlon

Csák, Ibolya (Hungarian high jumper)

Cummings, Iris (American swimmer); on Holm; on German attitude to African-Americans; on the Friesian House; on von Wangenheim; on Germans' hatred of Nazis; at Goebbels'
Sommerfest
; in swimming competitions; training in Berlin; impression of Berlin Games

Cunningham, Glenn (American athlete)

Cupid, E. G., (British athlete)

Curtis-Bennett, Sir Noel

Czechoslovakia: in ice hockey tournament; Hitler's demands; danger of communism; and Nazi Germany

 

Daily Mail
;
see also
Price

Daily Telegraph

Daily Worker

Daley, Arthur (journalist)

Dallgow-Doeberitz: present-day condition;
see also
Olympic village, Doeberitz

Daluege, Police General Kurt

Davey, John (British ice hockey team)

Dawson, Geoffrey (editor of
The Times
); meeting with Ribbentrop

Dean, Fred (British ice skater)

Dean, Joan (British ice skater)

decathlon; 100 metres; 400 metres; high jump in; long jump in; shot put; 110-metre hurdles; 1500 metres; discus; javelin; pole vault

Degener, Dick (American diver)

democracy: in Germany

Denmark: proposed participation in People's Olympic Games; boycott of Berlin Games by Jewish athlete

Denver Post

Desborough, Lord

Deutsche Hochschule fuer Liebesuebungen

Deutsche Volkwirkschaft
: on triumph of fascism in Games

Deutsche Zeitung
: and Nazis

‘Deutschland über Alles'

Dickson, Alec: letter on anti-Semitic signs

Dickstein, Samuel: on Wortmann

Diem, Dr Carl; Germany's readmission to Games and; on spirit of Games; at Los Angeles Games in 1932; and
Der Angriff
; Jewish associations; position on Organising Committee of GOC; meeting with Brundage; at England v. Germany football match; and US acceptance of invitation to Games; and Olympic torch relay; and Riefenstahl; Nazification of the Olympics; visit to Baillet-Latour; rehabilitation after Second World War; statement
on victory over France; help from Brundage after Second World War

Diem, Gudrun (Carl Diem's daughter)

Diem, Liselott (Diem's wife)

diplomacy
see
politics

discus: in decathlon

diving competitions; women's; men's

Dodd, Martha; on Phipps; on Wolfe; on Ribbentrop's party; on Games and Nazism; on Jews in Germany; as Soviet spy

Dodd, Mrs: at Ribbentrop's party

Dodd, William (US ambassador to Germany); on Goering's party; on Nazi press; opinion of Nazi Party; on Lewald; on Goebbels; on Goebbels'
Sommerfest

Doeberitz
see
Olympic village, Doeberitz

Doerffeldt, Ilse (German athlete)

Dollinger, Marie (German athlete)

Donng-a-Ilbo
(Korean newspaper)

Dora
see
Ratjen, Dora/Hermann (German high jumper)

downhill skiing competition

Draeger, Friedhelm (German vice-consul in New York)

Draper, Foy (American athlete)

drug-taking: in Berlin Games; in sports

Drysdale, Taylor (American swimmer)

Dunn, Velma (American swimmer); on proposed boycott of Games; on Holm; on SS
Manhattan
; on Hamburg; on Germany; on presentation book; on German guides; on Friesian House; on food in Olympic village; on military presence at Olympic village; on Helen Stephens; on athletes' shopping trips; on Cummings; in diving competitions

Durrance, Dick (American skier)

Düsseldorf: arrest of Catholics; banning of Jews from swimming pools

 

Early, Stephen: on Wortmann letter

Economist, The
: on German rearmament; on black athletes

Eden, Anthony: on German occupation of the Rhineland; questionnaire on Hitler's ambitions; on
The Times
; on proposed meeting between Hitler and Baldwin; Phipps on Vansittarts' visit to Berlin

Edstrøm, Mrs

Edstrøm, Sigfrid: on Coubertin; and Brundage's membership of IOC; on Jewish issue; meeting with Brundage in Stockholm; lunch at the Goerings; salvage of Olympic papers; as president of IOC

Edwards, Phil (Canadian athlete)

eights (rowing) final

Elek, Ilona (Hungarian fencer)

Elvin, George (general secretary of NWSA and British table-tennis player): proposed boycott; Shoreditch Town Hall motion; special AAA meeting; as captain of British team in People's Olympics; and People's Olympics; arrival in Barcelona; in Republican march in Barcelona; on Barcelona experience; return to London

Elvin, H. H. (trade unionist): on boycott; on People's Olympics

Epstein, Charlotte (Jewish US swimming coach)

equestrian clubs: Jews banned from

Equipe, L
'

Erces, Resat (Turkish skier): in downhill competition

Etonians: Nazi teaching on

Ettlingen training camp: Bergmann at

 

Fair Play for American Athletes
, AOC

Falz-Fein, Eduard (French journalist): on Berlin girls; on Nazis' parties

fascism: and sport; in Spain, Elvin on; Berlin Games as triumph for;
see also
Nazism

fascist salute: comparison with Olympic salute; and Seelenbinder; British athletes and; Mayer

fencing; in pentathlon; women's

Fennessey, Jim (South African boxing coach)

Ferris, Daniel (AOC official)

FIFA: and rematch between Austria and Peru

figure skating competition

Finland: Olympic successes

First World War: chlorine gas in

Fitch (American athlete)

flags: Olympic; dipping of; raising of;
see also
swastikas

flame
see
Olympic flame

Fleischer, Tilly (German athlete)

Fleming, Alexander: vaccine used by Lovelock

Foidl (Austrian wrestler)

Follett, E. G. (British athlete)

food: Germany, shortages; Americans on voyage to Germany; Olympic village

football: World Cup final, 2006; England v. Germany, 1935; disturbances during Austria-Peru game

Foster, Jimmy (British ice hockey team)

Frampton, Lorna (British swimmer)

France: athletes in Los Angeles games; Hitler and; and Locarno Treaties of 1935; and Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland; proposed participation in People's Olympic Games; boycott of Winter Games by French bobsleigh competitor; crowd's support for French athletes at Berlin Games; French athletes at Berlin Games; and Spanish civil war; in hockey tournament

François-Poncet, André (French ambassador to Berlin)

Frankfurter, David, (murderer of Gustloff)

Freemasons: Hitler and

Freikorps

Frick, Dr Wilhelm

Friesian House, Olympic village; officials in; part-Jewish workers in

Fritsch, General Werner von

Fromm, Bella (German anti-Nazi journalist)

Fuehrerprinzip

Fuerstner, Captain Wolfgang; Jewish background; suicide

Funk, Walther: use of Olympics to promote Nazism

 

Gallico, Paul (writer for Holm)

Garland, Colonel William May

Garmisch-Partenkirchen; anti-Semitic signs in; preparations for 1936 Winter Games; Brundage in;
see also
Winter Olympics

Gaudini, Giulio (Italian fencer)

Gay, Peter (German Jewish attendee at Berlin Games)

gender ambiguity: athletes

Genenger, Martha (German swimmer)

George I, king of Greece

Gerdes, Alfred (German hockey player)

Gerey, Aladár (Hungarian fencer)

German athletes in Berlin Games: ice hockey team; opening ceremony; medals; achievements; relay team; relay finals; women's high jump final; coxless fours; eights final; accusations of cheating; three-day event team; fencing tournament; hockey tournament; treatment of amateur athletes; fate in Second World War

German Olympic Committee: Diem as secretary;
Der Angriff
attack on; Organising Committee; Nazi involvement

German-Americans: Brundage's attempt to get funding from

Germany: adulation by Germans of Jesse Owens; banned from Olympic Games; readmitted to Games; and classical Olympism; connection with ancient Greek civilisation; democracy in; need to be seen as civilised country; post-First World War political upheaval; Great Depression, 1930; hyperinflation; reparations payments, default on; and Treaty of Versailles (1919); athletes in Los Angeles games; athletes' training; German visitors to England v. Germany football match; medals in 1936 Games; Anglo-German Naval
Treaty (1935); and Locarno Treaties of 1935; colonies, Hitler's demands; conditions under Nazis; food shortages; Germans' attitude to the Nazis; appeasement of Hitler; Germans as sports fans; leaflet distributed to British athletes on; working-class conditions; promotion of German cities and towns in Olympic village; and Britain, Mosley on; apparent preparation for war, Lindbergh on; rearmament; subversive leaflets; demonstrations of extravagance to foreign guests to Games; change in behaviour after Games; conscription extended;
see also
Berlin; Hitler, Adolf; Nazi Party

Gestapo: and Seelenbinder; and treatment of homosexuals; and Honorary Youth Service; interception of letter to Owens

Gestring, Marjorie (American diver)

Gevecker, Charlie (American speed skating official)

Gilissen, Cornelia (American diver)

Gilroy, A. E. (president of Canadian Amateur Hockey Association)

Glandaz, Albert (French IOC member)

Glickman, Marty (Jewish American athlete); in US try-out finals; on SS
Manhattan
; on Berlin welcome; on Hitler; on opening ceremony; and relay final; excluded from relay final; on dubious baton change in relay final

GOC
see
German Olympic Committee

Goebbels, Josef: first meeting with Lewald over Games; support for Malitz's views; at 1936 Winter Games; eventual fate of; on Ribbentrop; and German advance into the Rhineland; on reaction to occupation of the Rhineland; propaganda for Berlin Games; and Mitford sisters; Diana Guinness on; on Olympic officials; at long jump final; on Berlin Games; on Games as propaganda for Nazism; on Owens' achievement; racism; speech to foreign journalists; at Games banquets; meeting with Vansittart; jealousy of Goering; Dodd on;
Sommerfest
; at women's relay final; feeling for Hitler; on closing ceremony; after Games; flowers sent to Baillet-Latour's funeral; Channon on

Goebbels, Magda

Goering, Hermann: at 1936 Winter Games; eventual fate of; admiration of Colledge; on Ribbentrop; and Lindbergh; fondness for lion cubs; at Games banquets; lavish entertainment during Games; Channon on; meeting with Vansittart; and Helen Stephens; and Holm; at women's swimming championships

Gold, Sir Arthur: acquisition of new gold medal for Roberts

Gordon, Edward (American long jumper)

Gould, Allan (of Associated Press)

Grafton Athletics Club, London

Grasegger, Käthe (German skier)