1936 Winter Olympics
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The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 February 1936 in the mark
Opening Ceremony with Rudolf Hess, IOC president Henri de Baillet-Latour, and Adolf Hitler
Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie
1940 Winter Olympics
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The 1940 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games and as Sapporo 1940, was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 3 to 12 February 1940 in Sa
1936 Winter Olympics
…took place in the same country (the cancelled 1940 Olympics would have been held in Japan, with Tokyo hosting the Summer Games and Sapporo hosting the Winter Games). The 1936 Winter Games were organized on behalf of the German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (DRL) by Karl Ritter von Halt, who had been…
Poster for the 1940 Games, when they were scheduled to be held in Sapporo