Editing 1936 Summer Olympics (section)

===On the Olympic stage===
[[File:Olympic Games in Berlin! - John Henry Amshewitz.jpg|thumb|right|A 1935 political cartoon by Jewish British artist John Henry Amshewitz; Nazi sportsmen trample the Olympic spirit while marching past a concentration camp holding, among others, Jews and a "non-political sportsman". The axe of "Nazi justice" chops away at the tree of sport.]]
[[United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee|American Olympic Committee]] president [[Avery Brundage]] became a main supporter of the Games being held in Germany, arguing that "politics has no place in sport", despite having initial doubts.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|title=The Nazi Party: The Nazi Olympics|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html|website=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=16 November 2015}}</ref>

French Olympians gave a [[Roman salute]] at the opening ceremony: known as the ''salut de Joinville'' per the battalion, [[:fr:Bataillon de Joinville|Bataillon de Joinville]], the [[Olympic salute]] was part of the Olympic traditions since the 1924 games.<ref>Droit, Jean (1924). "Paris 1924 - Jeux Olympiques". Olympic Games Museum. Retrieved 15 March 2010.</ref> However, due to the different context this action was mistaken by the crowd for a support to fascism, and the [[Olympic salute]] was discarded after 1946.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Berlin Olympics|url=http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-olympics.htm|website=Historyplace.com|publisher=The History Place|access-date=16 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911233549/http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-olympics.htm|archive-date=11 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although [[Haiti]] attended only the opening ceremony, an interesting [[Vexillology|vexillological]] fact was noticed: [[Flag of Haiti|its flag]] and the [[flag of Liechtenstein]] were coincidentally 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Liechtenstein|title=flag of Liechtenstein|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref>

[[Marty Glickman]] and [[Sam Stoller]] were originally slated to compete in the American 4x100 relay team but were replaced by [[Jesse Owens]] and [[Ralph Metcalfe]] prior to the start of the race. There were speculations that their Jewish heritage contributed to the decision "not to embarrass the German hosts"; however, given that African-Americans were also heavily disliked by the Nazis, Glickman and Stoller's replacement with black American athletes does not support this theory. Others said that they were in a better physical condition, and that was the main reason behind the replacement.<ref>Holocaust Museum exhibit, Washington, DC</ref>