1936 Summer facts

While investigating facts about 1936 Summer, I found out little known, but curios details like:

The idea of having the Olympic torch run from ancient Olympia to the host country was invented by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Summer Games.

Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 18 of the best facts about 1936 Summer I managed to collect.

1. Jackie Robinson's older brother Mack won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics for the 200 meter sprint.

2. In high school Jackie Robinson was an All-Star baseball player, accomplished tennis player, and his older brother Matthew (nicknamed Mack) won a silver medal in the 200 meter sprint in the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

3. Liechtenstein didn't realize their flag was identical to the flag of Haiti until the 1936 Summer Olympics

4. The Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

5. 1936 had one of the coldest winters and one of the hottest summers in the United States. North Dakota saw extremes of -60 F and 121 F that year.

6. The Olympics torch relay was invented for the 1936 summer Olympics by the Nazi party.

7. The Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

8. At the 1936 Summer Olympics Haiti and Liechtenstein's flags were "identical, and this was not discovered until then. The following year, a crown was added to Liechtenstein's to distinguish one flag from the other."

9. A man named Heinrich Ratjen disguised himself as a female to compete in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. He was later discovered to be male and his medals were redistributed.

10. Jackie Robinson's brother named Mack who was an athlete and who was a great runner. He won a Silver Medal in the 200 meters behind Jesse Owens during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

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The flags of Liechtenstein and Haiti were identical, which was only discovered when both nations were at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag the next year to differentiate the two. - source

One of the first athletes to wear adidas shoes (a German shoe company) was Jesse Owens, winner of 4 gold medals at the summer Olympics in 1936.

Dora Ratjen, a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later discovered to be male. - source

Adolph Hitler hired Mormon missionaries to coach the German National basketball team, hoping to take gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin