Inside Hitler’s 1936 Olympic Village (Then and Now)

Patreon:   / whitlamsberlin   ++++++ Let me take you inside the 1936 Olympic Village—built for Hitler’s Berlin Games, later taken over by the Wehrmacht, and now left to decay. I’ll show you what’s still standing, what’s been rebuilt, and how the site looked in 2013 and again in 2025. Along the way, I’ll touch on Nazi architecture, the fate of the village’s “Mayor” Wolfgang Fürstner, World War II history, Soviet occupation—and take you inside a museum so hidden, even I didn’t know it was there. ++++++ Want more Berlin history? Check these out: 🎙️ Podcast: History Flakes – The Berlin History Podcast https://www.whitlams-berlin-tours.com... 📸 Instagram:   / whitlamsberlintours   🎵 TikTok:   / whitlamsberlin   💬 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@whitlamsberl... 🦋 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jonnywhitlam... ++++++ Want to see Berlin together in real life? Check out my tours homepage: https://www.whitlams-berlin-tours.com ++++++ Sources Berlin 1936: 16 Days in August by Oliver Hilmes ++++++ Image Credits Creative Commons images licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 & 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Map of the 1936 Olympic Village, Florian Schäffer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rudolf Heß & Wolfgang Fürstner in the Olympic Village, Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2008-0122-501 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Hitler, 1938, Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Goebbels, 1934, Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-17049 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Olympic Stadium, Photo: Kunstbibliothek Berlin / Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Public Domain Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S59096 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1979-145-04A / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2008-0122-500 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P019183 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Map of countries participating in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Image by The-, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R17289 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-09348 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1976-116-08A / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Chrissit65, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P017073 / Frankl, A. / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-G00372 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P017176 / Frankl, A. / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1969-054-16 / Hoffmann, Heinrich / CC-BY-SA Anonymous grave of Reinhard Heydrich, RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Battle of Berlin Map, Lonio17 / Orionist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons