The Berlin-Rome axis is concluded with the fascist Italy of Benito Mussolini, which has just overrun Ethiopia and founded the colony of Italian-East Africa, and the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union with the Japanese Empire. Adolf Hitler terminates the Locarno Treaties and lets the Wehrmacht march into the demilitarized Rhineland, an aggressive act to which France and Great Britain offer no significant resistance. After all, with the German Empire, a nation other than the United States becomes the most successful nation at the Summer Olympics for the first time.ĭomestically, the oppression and persecution of Jews and other minorities is being consistently continued and, in terms of foreign policy, war is being prepared more and more openly.
From the Nazis' point of view, the perfect staging is not even tarnished by the fact that Jesse Owens, an African American, becomes the most successful athlete at the Games. The Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, at which a torch relay is carried out for the first time, and in particular the Olympic Summer Games in Berlin are also exploited for propaganda purposes. With two major international sporting events, the year 1936 gave the National Socialists the opportunity to present the German Reich to the outside world in a brilliant way. Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) Syria: 2247/48 (turn of the year October)
Year of the Fire Rat丙子 ( since January 24th, before that Wood Pig乙亥)Ĭhula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)īabylon: 2246/47 (turn of the year April)
Summer Olympics exploited for propaganda purposes.ġ340/41 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)Ģ479/80 (southern Buddhism) 2478/79 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
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