When the Nazis Hosted the Olympics (Members Video)
Added 2024-04-24 19:51:26 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here's the latest members video as a thank you for your support. It seems that as my quality standards go up these are resembling, more and more, the quality of main channel videos from a year or two ago, and hopefully that's a good thing for you guys.
Basically, the Nazi Olympics struck me as an interesting moment in history and also a powerful symbol of the period that ties in nicely as bonus content for the last WWII video. Enjoy!
Sources for the video:
Travelers in the Third Reich - Julia Boyd
Adolf Hitler - John Toland
The Dark Valley - Piers Bredon
The Third Reich in Power - Richard Evans
Comments
Excellent 👍
Ronald Mobbs
2025-02-27 16:07:46 +0000 UTCI really hope that you eventually release these member only videos to the public. I think this video is particularly thought provoking for people that have trouble imagining how people could support the Nazis. Or how they would be the exception. But clearly there were many reasons why someone may be swept up in the collective enthusiasm on display here.
Craig Albert
2024-08-01 16:15:09 +0000 UTCThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown helped me realize what your video highlights. The author describes and recognizes how clueless those in the United States were about what was happening in Germany. The games were used to make Germany seem like a utopia. I highly recommend the book if you have not read it yet (book not movie.)
Gemma
2024-07-07 16:38:16 +0000 UTCInterestingly, today with the internet and instantaneous communication, you'd think that problem would be behind us. Sadly it is not.
Matt Gerrans
2024-06-30 05:21:25 +0000 UTCHello Ryan! I also came on here looking for your Wokeism =? Marxism video, it was so good, I'm so sorry it got taken down from YouTube! I'm glad to now be a member here though!
Cristina
2024-06-21 19:21:57 +0000 UTCHi Ryan, I have greatly enjoyed your presentations. The research is balanced and thorough hence my puzzlement and distress that your video on "Cultural Marxism" has been taken down. I am following this up and would appreciate any help you can give me. Writing to you here is my attempt to contact you. Is there a better way? You can check me out on Google by typing in "James Charnley author" Best regards, James
James Charnley
2024-06-02 09:12:05 +0000 UTCThis reminds me of how Tucker Carlson propagandized (by accident or otherwise) about Russian food/groceries. The similarity isn't super strong, but I often talk to friends of mine on the right and it's odd to me how ready some of them are to engage in apologia for Russia and China.
Kaerakh
2024-05-07 02:05:50 +0000 UTCTo myself I thought some parallels could be found with Berlins Olympics and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, both were rising powers who used the opportunity given to them to showcase national prestige and power. Obviously they are not a 1-1 comparison.
Gerald Freibrun
2024-04-29 08:10:12 +0000 UTCHi - new subscriber and paid member here. I enjoy your program a great deal, keep up the good work!
Pops
2024-04-28 15:18:03 +0000 UTCI appreciated the video a lot. Being German myself but also of Jewish heritage I do find myself to have an apparently controversial view of this era. I also despise black and white thinking and while I am aware that the Nazis are responsible for some of the most cruel chapters in human history, I also think it's a mistake to demonise every approach they had to every topic. The more modern phenomenon of what I call "national self-hatret" you find in western civilisations is also not a solution in my opinion. I still believe that inspiring people to excel and to be proud of what they achieve as a group is good thing. I mean, that is what every parenting book teaches you to treat your children like. Inspire them, make them want to achieve things, make them believe in themselves. In my opinion it is a shame we through that onto the same pile with the war hunger, fascism and racism of the Nazis.
Lina
2024-04-27 20:51:05 +0000 UTCExceptional. Ryan, you are making deeply informative and meaningful videos. I really appreciate all that you do. Looking forward to the next one!
Eli Waltz
2024-04-27 05:16:07 +0000 UTCHey Ryan, Great to take a few moments to reflect on this topic. It helps bring forward the reality of the people of the time and helps us rethink how we would act then. With any luck, it'll help us be more humble about what we choose to believe and why. A culture that derides every mistake is one that needs reminding of human nature and of a certain grace that ought to come as a part of our condition. Appreciate all you do, -Jared
Jared Fry
2024-04-26 02:07:06 +0000 UTCBasically yes
Ryan Chapman
2024-04-25 01:41:36 +0000 UTCHey, thanks for the comment. I've read Germany by Helmut Kohl, which tries to cover some of that in the last 1/5 of the book or so, but I think that hardly counts. I think the ongoing tensions between Eastern and Western Germans, and internationalist vs nationalist Germans that still go on are interesting. I'd love to use that as an angle to learn more about the time/place (and produce a piece on modern Germany) but currently do not see that happening soon.
Ryan Chapman
2024-04-25 01:40:11 +0000 UTCSo propaganda, diplomatic complexities, limited information flow, and strategic calculations that failed to grasp the gravity of the situation until it was too late.
Jonnie C
2024-04-24 23:22:12 +0000 UTCI've always wondered why nazism and Hitler to this day have such a magnetic power people are still drawn to in some degree. I think you've captured the essence of it. Ryan, have you done any research into post-war Germany? The support for a new fuhrer, the fiasco(?) of denazification, the German population relation and knowledge about the Holocaust and Germany's miraculous economic growth? Would be great to hear your thoughts on this.
Paweł
2024-04-24 21:04:16 +0000 UTC
