The negotiations concerning the centres of competition resulted in the desired concentration being achieved. The Berlin Racing Association consented to the use of its race course, and it was thus possible to plan the competitions in athletics, gymnastics, fencing, swimming, hockey, handball, pistol-shooting and the equestrian sports at the race course and Sport Forum. These plans naturally depended upon the enlargement of the Sport Forum as well as the remodelling of the Stadium, and in this connection negotiations had progressed to the point where the Racing Club had consented to the extension of its lease while the Prussian Exchequer declared its willingness to an additional extension of 30 years so that the property rights were secure for nearly 50 years. The Exhibition Grounds of the City of Berlin were selected as a second centre of competition, the halls already erected there to be used for wrestling, boxing and the art exhibition. An auxiliary cycling track was also to have been constructed on the grounds of the Berlin Sport Club, but this plan was never realized. In the desire to concentrate all of the competitions in one locality in the western part of Berlin we began investigations with the end in view of ascertaining whether a suitable regatta course could be laid out in the immediate vicinity of Havel Lake, a project which Minister von Podbielski had also considered in the preparations for the Games of 1916. It was discovered, however, that no 2,000 metre course adequate for the races and providing facilities for the spectators was to be found, and attention was thus directed to another district lying to the south-east of Berlin where the Grьnau course was selected for the rowing and Mьggel Lake for the yachting events. A concentration of competition centres was thus obtained which represented an improvement on the original plan.
The Sport Commission for the Games met on March 25th, 1933 under the chairmanship of Dr. Diem to decide upon the commencement date and programme of the Festival, and the various sporting aspects in the organization of the Games were discussed at this meeting in such a thorough manner that it was never necessary for the Commission to hold a second session. Every other problem of a sporting nature was discussed and settled by the technical committees, which, except in a few cases, convened only twice, once during March and April, 1933 and a second time in December, 1935 and January, 1936. It might be mentioned in this connection that committee meetings were reduced to a minimum in the organization of the Berlin Festival.
In the compilation of the programme it was natural that conditions most condusive to satisfactory competition and frictionless presentation should be assured, and for this reason the sporting factors alone were taken into consideration, other points such as, for example, financial returns, not coming into question. A second object was to obtain as great a degree of unity as possible in the Festival so that the whole would have a harmonious, festive character. It should be as though cast in a single mould, exhibiting neither exaggerations nor inadequacies, and should breathe an air of harmony and proportion as in the antique.