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The DC Traveler

August 6th, 2008

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany

The site for the 1936 Olympics had been decided before Adolph Hitler took power.  But by the time the games were held, Hitler and his Nazi party were running Germany since 1933 and initially didn’t want the games held in Berlin.
Earlier in the year, Germany also hosted the Winter Games in Bavaria. But after […]

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March 24th, 2008

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

During my college days, I visited my sister who was studying abroad at the University of Munich.in Germany. While there, a relative who lived in Munich took us on a tour of the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp, just outside of Munich.  Dachau was one of the first such concentration camps designed by the Nazis, […]

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