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World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

Olympics T-shirt marking 1936 Berlin Games raises eyebrows

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Olympics T-shirt marking 1936 Berlin Games raises eyebrows

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World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

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T-shirts on the Olympics online store commemorating past venues include one for the 1936 Games in Berlin. Nazi Germany hosted both the Winter and Summer Olympics that year, as it was starting to ramp up its repression.

https://shop.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/mens-natural-1936-berlin-games-olympic-heritage-t-shirt/t-10259387+p-0222349001530+z-7-4279097087

Wayback Link in case they react to backlash: https://web.archive.org/web/20260211181136/https://shop.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/mens-natural-1936-berlin-games-olympic-heritage-t-shirt/t-10259387+p-0222349001530+z-7-4279097087

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Weird, competative sports always been a nationalist thing so im not surprised

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