THE INFLUENCE OF THE NAZI IDEOLOGIES

The German Olympic committee, in accordance with Nazi directives, virtually barred Germans who were Jewish or Roma or had such an ancestry from participating in the Games. This decision meant exclusion for many of the country's top athletes such as shotputter and discus thrower Lilli Henoch. During the Games, Fürstner , the commandant of the Olympic Village, was abruptly replaced for being Jewis. Fürstner committed suicide shortly after the conclusion of the Berlin Olympics because he learned the Nuremberg Laws classified him as a Jew.