Lot # 114: 1936 Berlin Olympics Participation Medal

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The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games. To outdo the 1932 Los Angeles Games, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler had a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium built, as well as six gymnasiums and other smaller arenas. The Games were the first to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries. Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl 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. The event is infamously tied Hitler and his rising Nazzi party. This is a participation medal - Five athletes, representing the five continents, pulling the ropes of the Olympic Bell. Reverse - Olympic Bell embossed with German Eagle holding Olympic Rings within five concentric circles. The front is adorned with ‘XI OLYMPIADE BERLIN 1936 and the back with Olympic logo and makers mark ‘OTTO PLACZEK’.