From Sachsenhausen our coach took us to another Nazi construction: the Olympic Stadium. This has also been preserved as a fine, functional building that has been developed to meet the needs of a sports arena for the 21st century, including the FIFA World Cup and World Athletics Championship.
We were taken on a guided tour that allowed us to see the impressive facilities for VIPs and elite sportsmen that the public do not get to see. We sat in the seat taken by Chancellor Angela Merkel to watch Usain Bolt break the 100m World record and then see the indoor track on which he warmed up before his race.
Our visit ended back outside, where we admired the external developments of the Nazis’ stadium, looking at where the original sculptures and inscriptions from the 1930s have been conserved, and thought about how the Nazis made use of the Olympics, a movement with ideals completely at odds with their own.
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