IOC sells out of controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics t-shirts featuring Nazi propaganda

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is courting contention implicit a sold-out T-shirt connected the authoritative Olympics website depicting the 1936 Berlin Olympics tally by the Nazis.

The limited-edition garment features the poster for the 1936 Games designed by German creator Franz Würbel that was utilized arsenic propaganda by Adolf Hitler to beforehand the Nazi thought of Aryan supremacy.

That thought was deflated by Black American Jesse Owens, who won 4 way and tract golden medals astatine the games.

Liora Rez, laminitis of StopAntisemitism, called the determination a "shame" connected the IOC.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is courting contention implicit a sold-out T-shirt connected the authoritative Olympics website depicting the 1936 Berlin Olympics tally by the Nazis. (Olympic Shop; Kevin Voigt/GettyImages)

"The Olympics person been a staging crushed for antisemitism for decades," Rez told Fox News Digital connected Friday. "At the Munich games successful 1972, erstwhile terrorists butchered the Israeli Olympic team, the contention hardly paused. Even decades aboriginal the IOC refused to decently commemorate the massacre. And this year, the Jew-hate is official."

She added that earlier Friday an worker astatine the authoritative Olympics 2026 store shouted "Free Palestine" to Israel fans astatine the Winter Olympics presently being held successful Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

"Possibly much disgraceful, connected the authoritative Olympic online store arsenic portion of the ‘heritage collection,’ the IOC is selling T-shirts commemorating and reproducing imagery tied to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, held nether Adolf Hitler’s racist Nazi dictatorship. This is the practice the IOC wants to celebrate?" she continued. "Shame connected the International Olympic Committee for this latest outrage. No medals for this pathetic performance."

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The IOC told respective outlets that portion they "of people admit the humanities issues of ‘Nazi propaganda’ related to the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games, we indispensable besides retrieve that the Games successful Berlin saw 4,483 athletes from 49 countries vie successful 149 medal events. Many of them stunned the satellite with their diversion achievements, including Jesse Owens."

"The humanities discourse of these Games is further explained astatine the Olympic Museum successful Lausanne," the committee continued. "For the 1936 edition, the fig of T-shirts produced and sold by the IOC is limited, which is wherefore they are presently sold out."

Jesse Owens winning the 100 meters astatine the 1936 Olympics. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the IOC for comment.

The Berlin Games shirts are portion of the IOC’s Heritage Collection, which features the plan from each Olympic Games.

On the website it says the Heritage Collection "celebrates the creation and plan of the Olympic Games. Each variation of the Games reflects a unsocial clip and spot successful past erstwhile the satellite came unneurotic to observe humanity.

Yoav Potash, manager of the award-winning Holocaust documentary "Among Neighbors" called the t-shirt a "sickening affront to quality decency."

Adolf Hitler watching the Olympic Games successful Berlin successful 1936. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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"To accidental that the IOC's merchantability of these shirts is successful mediocre sensation would beryllium a gross understatement," Potash told Fox News Digital. "The IOC has the payment of 90 years of hindsight here. We cognize that Nazi Germany utilized its relation arsenic the Olympic big for propaganda purposes, aiming to showcase expected Aryan superiority."

He added, "And we cognize that, wrong a fewer years of those games, Nazi Germany carried retired a massive, industrialized genocide, sidesplitting millions of radical successful an effort to further the phantasy of Aryan superiority. To disregard each of that and merchantability t-shirts commemorating the 1936 Olympics successful Berlin is simply a sickening affront to quality decency and our corporate quality to larn from history."