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1936 - Year of the Olympics
Shadow Knight - Thanks 
brokenman - Thanks as well
Geekhis Khan - Haha - You need to update your TL GK
Fenrir_Angerboda - It is back!
Wyragen-TXRG4P - We shall see I think the NRA is well-trained enough to take to the field without the aid of "Advisor" generals - although old Falky is still in China of course. And you are assuming of course that Germany does declare war and it is a global struggle
Nivek - Yep - the only losers of the civil war is where it happens. The Chinese, French, Italians, Germans, British and Soviets all get a chance to practice all their fancy new equipment.
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Anyway - I need to backtrack on the promised update - I've realized I haven't actually talked about the year 1936 and 1937 at all
So without further ado:
The massive Olympic stadium in Berlin
1936 - Year of the Olympics
The 1936 Berlin Olympics would be one of the most politicized affairs in Olympic History. It was essentially set up to be a 'puff piece' to showcase the vigours of the New Germany that the National Socialists were creating. It began with much fanfare and triumph as representatives from all over the world (with the exception of Spain and the USSR) sent delegations to compete in a highly prestigeous event.
Jesse Owens looking mildly sad that he didn't get the Gold Medal.
... An example of the degree of controversy which would murk the Olympics was the cirucmstances surrounding the victory of Poh Kimseng who's amazing victory in the 100M finals over Jesse Owens would lead him to be dubbed "The Flying Horse." Poh and Jesse finished the race at seemingly the same time - however the committee decided to award the gold medal to Poh. Some claim to this day that Hitler personally browbeat the committee into giving Poh the medal. Nontheless the Chinese olympic contingent did very well in the games - sweeping the Shooting events (3 gold medals) - the fact that the Olympic Shooting contingent consisted of NRA or ex-NRA men did not escape the notice or attention of the World's press. The Chinese contingent also took the Freestyle Bantamweight Gold medal. All in all the Chinese contingent came away with 6 Gold medals, 5 silver medals and 9 bronze medals placing a respectable 8th in the total table. This was not a bad performance considering that the 1932 Olympic team did not even manage to win a single bronze medal.
...It was perhaps a symptom of the sexism of the times that Li Sen's uncontroversial and resounding victory in the Women's 100 Meters was almost completely ignored in favour of Poh's contested 'triumph'....
China's victory was all the more important in that they managed to 'beat' Japan's total of 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 8 Bronze - a fact that Chinese media screamed for a few months - worsening already fragile Sino-Japanese relations. In fact, Dutch-Kiwi historian Van Veen has launched what is known as the "Olympic Thesis" and stated that the Second Great War was the result of Chinese hubris leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War which would flare up into the general conflagration that was the Second Great War. But that was neither here nor there. Apart from a few minor incidents and the storm of controversy surrounding Poh's "victory." The Berlin Olympics was a huge propaganda coup for National Socialist German.
Little would they know the storm clouds that were looming over the horizon in 1937...
Next update: 1937 -
brokenman - Thanks as well
Geekhis Khan - Haha - You need to update your TL GK
Fenrir_Angerboda - It is back!
Wyragen-TXRG4P - We shall see
I think the NRA is well-trained enough to take to the field without the aid of "Advisor" generals - although old Falky is still in China of course. And you are assuming of course that Germany does declare war and it is a global struggleNivek - Yep - the only losers of the civil war is where it happens. The Chinese, French, Italians, Germans, British and Soviets all get a chance to practice all their fancy new equipment.
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Anyway - I need to backtrack on the promised update - I've realized I haven't actually talked about the year 1936 and 1937 at all
So without further ado:
The massive Olympic stadium in Berlin
1936 - Year of the Olympics
The 1936 Berlin Olympics would be one of the most politicized affairs in Olympic History. It was essentially set up to be a 'puff piece' to showcase the vigours of the New Germany that the National Socialists were creating. It began with much fanfare and triumph as representatives from all over the world (with the exception of Spain and the USSR) sent delegations to compete in a highly prestigeous event.
Jesse Owens looking mildly sad that he didn't get the Gold Medal.
... An example of the degree of controversy which would murk the Olympics was the cirucmstances surrounding the victory of Poh Kimseng who's amazing victory in the 100M finals over Jesse Owens would lead him to be dubbed "The Flying Horse." Poh and Jesse finished the race at seemingly the same time - however the committee decided to award the gold medal to Poh. Some claim to this day that Hitler personally browbeat the committee into giving Poh the medal. Nontheless the Chinese olympic contingent did very well in the games - sweeping the Shooting events (3 gold medals) - the fact that the Olympic Shooting contingent consisted of NRA or ex-NRA men did not escape the notice or attention of the World's press. The Chinese contingent also took the Freestyle Bantamweight Gold medal. All in all the Chinese contingent came away with 6 Gold medals, 5 silver medals and 9 bronze medals placing a respectable 8th in the total table. This was not a bad performance considering that the 1932 Olympic team did not even manage to win a single bronze medal.
...It was perhaps a symptom of the sexism of the times that Li Sen's uncontroversial and resounding victory in the Women's 100 Meters was almost completely ignored in favour of Poh's contested 'triumph'....
China's victory was all the more important in that they managed to 'beat' Japan's total of 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 8 Bronze - a fact that Chinese media screamed for a few months - worsening already fragile Sino-Japanese relations. In fact, Dutch-Kiwi historian Van Veen has launched what is known as the "Olympic Thesis" and stated that the Second Great War was the result of Chinese hubris leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War which would flare up into the general conflagration that was the Second Great War. But that was neither here nor there. Apart from a few minor incidents and the storm of controversy surrounding Poh's "victory." The Berlin Olympics was a huge propaganda coup for National Socialist German.
Little would they know the storm clouds that were looming over the horizon in 1937...
Next update: 1937 -
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