1. Spielberg Film and Video Archive: Olympics (Berlin 1936). This resource presents archival film footage of the Games including sporting events and newsreels of the opening ceremonies, held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/simple_search.phpQuery=olympic&SearchAll=on
or
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php and search "olympic"
2. All Things Considered, June 7, 2008 · The Beijing Olympics were steeped in politics, but the atmosphere is nothing like the politically charged 1936 Olympic Games hosted by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93465278
3. All Things Considered, February 16, 2008 Professor John Hoberman, a sports historian at the University of Texas, discusses some of the major moments of political protest in Olympic history including 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19120192
4. Jewish Virtual Library, 1936 Nazi Olympics
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html
5. Feldgrau, a website on German Military History has a great number of primary sources available.
http://www.feldgrau.com/1936olymp.html
6. Download of lesson plan and collection of 1936 Nazi Olympic Propaganda
*note: you need Microsoft to view the images
7. Committee on Fair Play in Sports. Preserve the Olympic Ideal: A Statement of the Case Against American Participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin. New York: The Committee, 1935. (GV 722 1936 C6 1935)
This is a primary source booklet written in response to the American Olympic Committee's defense of participation in the 1936 Olympics in face of the grass roots boycott movement. Outlines the discriminatory conditions faced by German Jewish athletes and provides examples of the outward manifestations of German anti-Semitism found in public signs.
8. Cohen, Stan. The Games of ’36: A Pictorial History of the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1996. (GV 722 1936 C678 1996)
Chronicles the Games in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen through reproductions of contemporary photographs, documents and newspaper stories. Provides capsule biographies of many of the noteworthy athletes and organizers of the Games.
