Berlin Games (54 page)

Graves, Robert (with Alan Hodge):
The Long Weekend

Great Britain
see
Britain

Great Depression, 1930

Greece: association with modern Olympic Games; national hero; support of Greek athletes for 1936 Games; Greek athletes at 1936 Winter Games; Greek athletes at Berlin Games; Hitler's invasion;
see also
Athens

Greek civilisation: German connection; Nazi admiration for; Brundage's admiration for

Green, Milton (Jewish American athlete); as world record holder

Greene, Al (American diver)

Grieg, Nordahl

Griffith, Major J. L.

Guhl (Swiss decathlete)

Guinness, Diana; meetings with Hitler; requests for money for BUF; and Goebbels; planned marriage to Mosley in
Germany; life after Berlin Games; marriage to Mosley

Gustloff, Wilhelm: Hitler at funeral of

gymnastics: exclusion of Jews from clubs

‘Gypsy Camp', Berlin

Gypsy
, HMS: transport of British team from Barcelona

 

Halt
see
von Halt

Hamburg: American athletes' impressions of

Handrick, First Lt Gotthardt (German pentathlete); during Second World War

Hardin, Glenn (American hurdler)

Harding, Ted (British athlete)

Harper, Ernest (British marathon runner); and Son Ki-Jung

Harvey, Rev F. Brompton: letter to
Daily Telegraph

Hauptmann, Bruno: accused of kidnap of Lindbergh baby

Havelange, João (Brazilian swimmer)

Havelka (Czech boxer)

Hayes, Helen (actress)

Hearst, William Randolph Jr

Heath, Clarita (American skier)

Helms, Richard (American journalist)

Henie, Sonja (Norwegian figure skater)

Herber, Maxie (German figure skater)

hermaphrodite athletes

Hess, Rudolf: and
Mein Kampf
; as Hitler's interpreter for Stephens; at long jump final; at Games banquets; appearance

Heydrich, Gruppenführer Reinhard

Hicks, Thomas (American marathon runner): drugs taken

high jump; Olympic record; in decathlon; women's; special treatment of German women's team

Hill, Harry (British cyclist)

Himmler, Heinrich: order to Gestapo over homosexuals; meeting with Buchman; on Oxford Group; at Chancellery banquet before Games; view of Etonians; Martha Dodd on

Hindenburg
airship

Hindenburg
battle cruiser

Hindenburg House, Olympic village

Hindenburg, Paul von, President of Germany

Hinrich, Consul (consul-general in San Francisco)

Hitler, Adolf: appearance

 

at 1936 Winter Games; opening ceremony; congratulations given to winning athletes; figure skating championships

 

at Berlin Games: 100 metres final; arrival at opening ceremony; congratulations given to winning athletes; at long jump final; women's relay finals; departure; on German successes in Games

 

career: imprisonment after Beer Hall Putsch; as leader of 1923 Nazi putsch;
Fuehrerprinzip
; leadership style; rise to power; as Chancellor of Germany; as German government; eventual fate; Austrian background; speech at funeral of Gustloff; occupation of the Rhineland; meeting with Phipps; questionnaire from Eden; possible agreement with British; meeting with Thomas Jones; finance for BUF; meeting with Vansittart; extension of conscription

 

character: as subject of admiration; trancelike state; bourgeois behaviour; humour; politeness; as host; reaction to being photographed with Stephens; foreign curiosity over; asceticism; taste in films; choice of wedding present for Mosleys

 

Mein Kampf

 

and Olympic Games: first meeting with Lewald over Games; support for 1936 Games; involvement in preparation for 1936 Games; visit to Berlin Olympic
Stadium; on Jewish participation in Games; anti-Semitic signs during Games; importance of Winter Games; Hitler's takeover of; speech at Chancellery banquet; idea of Germany as permanent home of Olympic Games

 

relationships and meetings: Brundage; Sherrill; Baillet-Latour; Henie; Diana Guinness; Coubertin; Mitford girls; Helen Stephens; Morris; Son Ki-Jung; Lady Vansittart; with Komorowski

 

views: on Olympics; on France; on sport; on Britain; on Ribbentrop's London appointment; on Mosley; on Owens; on communism; on Spanish civil war

 

see also
Nazi Party

Hitler Youth: Catholics' refusal to join; motto; at Berlin Games; and Ratjen's ambiguous sex; Godfrey Brown on; at Russian advance; deaths at Olympic Stadium in March 1945

hockey tournament

Hodge, Alan (with Robert Graves):
The Long Weekend

Hoesch, Leopold von (German ambassador to Britain)

Hoffman, Heinrich: book of photographs

Hogsflesh, G. H.: on People's Olympics

Holland: Dutch athletes at 1936 Winter Games, opening ceremony; proposed participation in People's Olympic Games; relay team

Hollywood: and the Olympic flame

Holm, Eleanor (American swimmer); appearance; marriages; as singer; behaviour in training; world record broken; and Brundage; coach; behaviour on SS
Manhattan
; on SS
Manhattan
; banned from US team; in Berlin; as journalist in Berlin; life after Berlin Games; in
Tarzan's Revenge
; divorce from Billy Rose

Holm, Herbert (American team manager)

homosexuals: treatment during Berlin Games

Honorary Youth Service (German): at Olympic village

Hopkins, R. G. W. (British athlete)

Horne, Sir Robert: at 1936 BOA dinner

horseriding: in pentathlon;
see also
equestrian clubs; three-day event

Horst Wessel Song

Howitt, Edgar (British rower)

Huber (German decathlete)

Hughes, Harry (Morris's coach)

Hume, Don (American rower)

Hungary: in 4 x 400 metres relay final; in eights final; in fencing tournament; in hockey tournament

Hunter, Evan: and proposed boycott of 1936 Games; and Temple's letter to BOA; acceptance of invitation to 1936 Games; contact with Brundage over proposed boycott; at 1936 Winter Games; view of winter sports; on ice hockey tournament

hurdles: 110-metre hurdles in decathlon

Husing, Ted (sports commentator)

Hvegner, Ragnhild (Danish swimmer)

 

IAAF
see
International Association of Athletics Federations

ice hockey tournament

India: athletes at Berlin Games

 

hockey team: at British embassy; call for reinforcements

 

in hockey tournament;
see also
Chand

Initiatives of Change
see
Oxford Group

Inskip, Sir Thomas: at 1936 BOA dinner; meeting with Ribbentrop

International Association of Athletics Federations: 1934 meeting, Brundage at

International Olympic Committee (IOC): foundation; discussions over 1936 venue; readmission of Germany to Games; Berlin congress in 1930; Lewald and; misgivings over Nazi regime; meeting in Vienna
in 1933; Athens convention, 1934; US members, support requested for participation in Games; and Nobel Prize for Coubertin; Berlin Castle banquet; entertainment during Berlin Games; Son's request to transfer medal from Japan to Korea and; bulletin under Nazi control; domination by Nazis; Brundage as VP; connection with fascism; Edstrøm as President

International Olympic Institute

IOC
see
International Olympic Committee

Isis
(Oxford university paper)

Ismayr, Rudolf (German weightlifter): taking of Olympic oath

Iso-Hollo, Volmar (Finnish athlete)

Italy: 1936 Winter Games, athletes in opening ceremony; athletes in Los Angeles games; and Locarno Treaties of 1935; Berlin Games, athletes' behaviour; relay team; in eights final; in fencing tournament; in coxless fours

 

Jackson, Peter (British rower)

Jaenecke, Gustav (German ice hockey team)

Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig (‘Father')

Jahncke, Ernest Lee: as member of IOC; support requested for athletes' participation in Games; support for Mahoney; on proposed boycott of the Games; refusal to resign from IOC; expelled from IOC

Japan: celebration of Son's win in marathon; and Korea; swimming relay; in hockey tournament; Aryan superiority and Japanese athletes

Jarrett, Arthur (bandleader married to Eleanor Holm)

javelin; in decathlon

Jewish Associations: on improvement for Jewish sportsmen in Germany

Jewish Chronicle
: on boycott

Jews

 

American: concern over 1936 Games; proposed boycott seen as Jewish-Catholic plot; in US Winter Olympic team; exclusion from relay team

 

British: Board of Deputies of British Jews, proposed boycott of Games; support for boycott; and German football supporters

 

in Germany: discrimination against in sport; education, discrimination; German declaration over exclusion from 1936 Games; disallowed from Games; official denials of discrimination in sport; Aberdare's support for; sports leaders presented to Brundage; alleged improved conditions; Brundage on; Ettlingen training camp; deprived of German citizenship; Nuremberg Laws; Hirschberg pogrom; treatment compared to African-Americans; AOC and; Elvin on danger of annihilation; British unconcern over; leaflet exposing treatment; treatment during Berlin Games; and Mayer's Nazi salute; during Berlin Games; fears during Berlin Games; Wolfe on; Dodd on;
see also
anti-Semitism; tokenism

 

Hitler on Olympic Games as Jewish invention; association with communism; differences of opinion on participation in Games

Johansen (Norwegian boxer)

Johnson, Ben (American athlete)

Johnson, Cornelius ‘Corny' (African-American high jumper)

Jones, Thomas (retired senior civil servant): meetings with Ribbentrop; on Baldwin; meeting with Hitler; on meeting between Baldwin and Hitler

Joyce, Susan (sister of William)

Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw)

 

Kabos, Endre (German Jewish fencer)

Kaidel, Willi (German rower)

Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin

Kalima (Finnish high jumper)

Kansas Relays: Morris's success

Kapp, Wolfgang: as Chancellor of Germany

Kastner, Colonel Gustav

Kaun, Elfriede (German high jumper)

Kaupisch, General Leonhard

Kawecki, Captain (Polish three-day eventer)

Keitel, Lt Gen Wilhelm

Kennan, George F. (passenger on SS
Manhattan
): on athletes; on US athletes' arrival in Germany

Ki-Jung, Son
see
Son Ki-Jung

Kiefer, Adolph (American swimmer); on proposed boycott of Games; as world record holder; on Holm; on German anti-Semitism; on German restrictions; on Nazi involvement in Berlin Games

Kieran, John (American sports writer): on proposed boycott; on Owens in long jump; on changes in American relay team

Kirby, Gustavus Town; and proposed boycott of 1936 Games; on Mayer's return to Germany; anticipated bad behaviour of athletes at 1936 Winter Games; on Germany at 1936 Winter Games; on finance for Berlin Games; on Hitler; views on Jews

Kirby, W. Capel: on British and American 400-metre finalists

Kirkpatrick, Ivone: on Kraft durch Freude

Kitei Son
see
Son Ki-Jung

Klemperer, Victor: on Games

KOC
see
Korean Olympic Committee

Koehler, Käte (German diver)

Komorowski, Adam

Komorowski, Irina

Komorowski, Colonel Tadeusz (Polish three-day eventer)

Koepenick; rowers' accommodation

Korea: and Japan; Son Ki-Jung as national hero

Korean Olympic Committee; request for Son's medal to be ascribed to Korea

Kotkas (Finnish high jumper)

Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy)

Krauss, Kathe (German athlete); in 100 metres; in relay final

Ku Klux Klan, Cleveland

Kurland, Abraham (Danish wrestler): boycott of Berlin Games

 

Lake Placid, 1932 Games
see
Winter Olympics

Langer, Ruth (Austrian Jewish swimmer)

Lanitis, Domnitsa (Greek hurdler): on proposed boycott of Games; on food in Olympic village; on Hitler; on change in Germans after Games

Lantschner, Gustav (German skier)

Laski, Neville: proposed boycott of Games

Lausanne, IOC HQ, decision over 1936 venue

Lawrence, Richard (American bobsleigh team)

Lawson, J. Hubert (ship's doctor on SS
Manhattan
)

leaflets, anti-Nazi

Lehand, Marguerite (Roosevelt's secretary): correspondence with Sherrill

Leibbrandt, Robey (South African boxer); Nazi interest in; character; vegetarianism; on Hitler; in boxing competition; broken hand; as Nazi; life after Games; meeting with Hitler after Games; in plan to assassinate Smuts

Leichum (German long jumper)

Leonard, Charles (American pentathlete); on proposed boycott of Games; on SS
Manhattan
; on Holm; on Hamburg City Hall; on German girls; on entertainments for athletes in Olympic village; on German military presence at Olympic village; in Berlin Games; skill with guns; on reception for pentathletes; on Berlin Games; on German discipline and training; life after Berlin Games

Lewald, Dr Theodor: at Barcelona meeting in 1931; relationship with Nazi regime; at IOC Congress in Berlin, 1930; Germany's readmission to Games and; at Los Angeles Games in 1932; and
Der Angriff
; as chairman of GOC Organising Committee; Jewish blood; on new Nazi regime and 1936 Games; warning by Baillet-Latour; at Vienna IOC meeting, 1933; with Hitler at visit to Stadium; and American Jewish concern over 1936 Games; and proposed US boycott of 1936 Games; correspondence with Aberdare over Jewish athletes; at Athens convention in 1934; meeting with Brundage in Stockholm; invitation to Mayer to attend Olympic trials; invitation to Mayer to take part in Games; call from Mahoney to resign; reply to Mahoney's accusations; and Coubertin; on Mahoney; at England v. Germany football match; at 1936 BOA dinner; bribery of Coubertin; welcome to British Olympic team; at Berlin Games, opening ceremony; at Chancellery banquet before Games; Dodd on; removed from German Olympic Committee; survival after Second World War