Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!It was the most controversial sporting tournament in history and it began 85 years ago today (August 1) – the infamous Berlin Olympics.The event was hijacked by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler who hoped to prove his crackpot theories about the athletic superiority of the Aryan race.
But things didn’t entirely go the dictator’s way.Here, James Moore reveals 15 fascinating facts about the games…1. The 10th modern Olympic games had been awarded to Berlin two years before the Nazis rose to power.
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