The International Olympics Committee is under fire over the sale of a T-shirt that features artwork from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, which Adolf Hitler used to promote Nazi Germany. The Olympics’ ...

In 1936, Americans looked on as Adolf Hitler remilitarized western German lands near the Rhine River and the eastern border of France. Hitler's action was designed to create a diplomatic crisis by ...

MAINZ, Germany — Nearly eight decades after Adolf Hitler hosted the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the all-Jewish European Maccabi Games will take place in the same city — including events at venues built ...

(JTA) — Germany restored the 1936 high jump record to a Jewish woman. Gretel Bergmann was kicked off the German 1936 Olympic track and field team, which she joined in 1934, because she was Jewish, ...

Francis F. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York in 1914. "He was a small man," says his daughter, Jeddy Hood. "He was 5-foot-7. But he was very interested in sports and very active." Hood and her ...

In the summer of 1936, America sweltered through a heat wave and endured the depths of the Great Depression. In Cleveland, safety director Elliott Ness fought the mob and searched for the Torso ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on August 5, 1936. This story was written by Paul Gallico.) BERLIN, Aug. 4. — They might just as well have left the big American flag flying from the masthead ...

LONDON – Hiding in plain sight beside a row of London 2012 shuttle buses stands a small metal frame holding the mystery of a past Olympics. Attached to the frame is a photograph. It is an old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IOC under fire for selling replica 1936 Olympics t-shirt used to promote Nazi Germany The International Olympics Committee is ...