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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Carsen Holaday

IOC under fire for selling replica 1936 Olympics t-shirt used to promote Nazi Germany

The International Olympics Committee is under fire over the sale of a T-shirt that features artwork from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, which Adolf Hitler used to promote Nazi Germany.

The Olympics’ official online shop has sold out of the controversial T-shirt, which replicates designs from the propaganda used 90 years ago: a man wearing a laurel crown, the Olympic rings and the Brandenburg Gate.

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