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Olympics committee defends sale of T-shirt commemorating 1936 Nazi-era Games

JL;DR SUMMARY The International Olympic Committee (IOC) defends its controversial sale of a T-shirt commemorating the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a Games heavily utilized as Nazi propaganda. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Nazi PropagandaJesse OwensJewish OrganizationsHolocaust History1936 OlympicsIocHistorical ControversyBerlin OlympicsOlympic Merchandise

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Berlin, Germany
"The governing body for the Olympics is defending its sale of a limited-edition T-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin under Adolf Hitlers Germany."
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
"Another item based on an Olympics event overseen by the Nazis, a T-shirt commemorating the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was also being sold through the collection."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Christine Schmidt, the co-director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, also condemned the sale of the shirts."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"The Heritage collection also sold a T-shirt bedecked with a poster from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, during which the entire Israeli athletic delegation was taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian terror group Black September."

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