The Olympic Games gave Nazi Germany a chance to show the world that the Third Reich was a well-ordered, powerful society. For propaganda purposes measures against Jews were relaxed, and Berlin became the home of fraternal international friendship, albeit temporarily. However, away from the Olympics the Germans re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland and began to channel military aid to the Franco’s Nationalists fighting a civil war in Spain. As they did so, Great Britain and France, the major powers of Europe, did nothing but watch idly.
8 May
SS, Concentration Camps
Images to fool the world: well-fed concentration camp inmates receive their cigarette rations from the SS.
Reichsführer-SS Himmler conducts a group of Nazi Party officials around Dachau concentration camp. He is extremely proud of this new institution. The SS camp guards have formed as Totenkopfverbände, and currently number 3000 men.
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