1936: False Peace of The Berlin Olympics: Holocaust Monument

Holocaust Monument.

Offices of the Reich leader of the SS and the chief of the German Police were combined on June 17 under Henrich Himmler. German Police came under SS control.

International demands to have the Olympic Games moved from Berlin out of fear that the games would be exploited for Nazi propaganda failed. During the games, the Nazis removed offensive signs and allowed Jews to compete. The games opened in August, despite the German military occupation of the Rhineland. Jesse Owens, an African-American track star, went on to win 4 gold medals.

On-going boycotting and harassment of Jews led to the "voluntary" transfer of many businesses to non-Jewish Germans, a process known as Aryanization.

To prepare Germany militarily and economically for inevitable war, Hitler appointed Hermann Goring to oversee his four year plan. Strategic alliances were cemented with Spain and General Franco's independent forces in summer, with Italy on October 25, and with Japan on November 25.

The world, Hitler believed, had been "drifting" toward a new conflict, "whose essence and aim, however, are solely the removal of those strata of man kind which have until the present provided the leadership and their replacement by international Jewry". . This historical marker was erected in 1992 by Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust; American Congress of Jews from Poland; and Survivors of Concentration Camps.. It is in Fairfax in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County California