Editing 1936 Summer Olympics (section)

===Domestic antisemitism===
{{Main|Nazi persecution of Jews during the 1936 Olympic Games}}
The German Olympic Committee, in accordance with Nazi directives, virtually barred Germans who were Jewish or [[Romani people|Roma]] or had such an ancestry from participating in the Games ([[Helene Mayer]], who had one Jewish parent, was the only German Jew to compete at the Berlin Games). This decision meant exclusion for many of the country's top athletes such as [[shotputter]] and [[discus thrower]] [[Lilli Henoch]], who was a four-time world record holder and 10-time German national champion,<ref name="google2">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=henoch&pg=PA107 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists |author=Paul Taylor |isbn=1-903900-88-3|publisher= Sussex Academic Press|year= 2004|access-date=2 November 2011}}</ref> and [[Gretel Bergmann]] who was suspended from the German team just days after she set a record of 1.60 meters in the high jump.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/sports/german-film-helps-jewish-athlete-right-historical-wrong-1.3472 |title=German film helps Jewish athlete right historical wrong |newspaper= Haaretz |date= 25 November 2009|access-date=19 August 2012|author=Hipsh, Rami}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= Richard|last= Sandomir|title='Hitler's Pawn' on HBO: An Olympic Betrayal  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/sports/tv-sports-hitler-s-pawn-on-hbo-an-olympic-betrayal.html|work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2004 |access-date=4 July 2008}}</ref> [[Daniel Prenn]], [[Erich Seelig]] and [[Johann Trollmann]] were also excluded.<ref name=hp1/>