Hitler hoped to use the 1936 Olympics as a showcase for Nazism and his assertion of a superior white Aryan race.

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Just before World War II, the Nazi regime planted flags on the continent for Hitler.

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It is unclear whether the Prussian landowner much cared for Hitler, who came to power in Germany in 1933.

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And the story at times comes off as a loopy cross between "Springtime for Hitler" and Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte.

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