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Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles.
The 1916 Summer Olympics had been awarded to Berlin, but were canceled because of the duration of World War I. The Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Olympische Spiele (DRA or DRAfOS) "German Imperial Commission for Olympic Games", was the German Olympic Sports organization at that time.
1932: Berlin: In the Sportpalast. [16] 22 April: 1932: Berlin: In the Sportpalast. [16] 20 July: 1932 (publication date) Munich (publication place) Franz Eher Nachfolger published Hitler's first phonograph recording titled Hitlers Appell an die Nation ("Hitler's Appeal to the Nation") as propaganda for the German federal election on 31 July ...
The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on April 9, 1923.Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles’ Olympic Committee led by Billy May Garland, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games.
The 1932 Summer Olympics, referred to by the International Olympic Committee as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in Los Angeles, California, United States, from July 30 through August 14, 1932. A total of individual athletes won medals.
In so doing, she became the first German woman to win a gold medal at an Olympics event. [6] As opposed to the 1932 Games, the javelin event was the only competition she entered at the 1936 Games. [3] After Fleischer won the javelin event, she was taken, along with the other two medallists, to meet Adolf Hitler.
1932 Summer Olympics; IOC code: GER: NOC: German Olympic Sports Confederation: Website: www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French) in Los Angeles, United States 29 July–14 August 1932; Competitors: 144 (135 men and 9 women) in 15 sports: Flag bearer: Georg Gehring: Medals Ranked 9th: Gold 3 Silver 12 Bronze 5 Total 20: Summer Olympics ...
A quantitative comparison of the percentage of German movies screened vs. foreign movies screened shows the following numbers: in the last year of the Weimar Republic the percentage of German movies was 62%; by 1939 it had risen to 77% while the number of cinema visits increased by the factor 2.5 from 1933 to 1939.