This was passed down from my grandfather who was given it by a German family in exchange for coffee as they couldn't get any at the time. It was a present given to VIPs who attended the 1936 Olympics.

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin ... Greece into the stadium. "The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics.

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered ... The German leader attended the Berlin stadium daily, fervently celebrating home winners - and ...