Model of the Olympic Stadium and Reich Sport Field in 1936.
grew to 25,000 addresses, having been compiled on the basis of the Los Angeles list and in cooperation with the National Olympic Committees of the various countries, the Propaganda Ministry and the German Railway Publicity Department. From April lst, 1935 on, the News Service was increased to 14 languages and in 1936 a Special Art Service was added. During the entire period we sent printing matrices in addition to the News Service, each edition comprising 2,000 and the total number reaching 75,000.
1934
This part of the publicity rested entirely with the Organizing Committee, while the Publicity Commission of the Propaganda Ministry took charge of the more general forms of publicity and transportation arrangements. The initial meeting of this body was held on January 15th, 1934 under the chairmanship of Reich Minister Goebbels, on which occasion the Olympic Publicity Commission under the chairmanship of Ministerial Councillor Haegert and sub-committees for transportation, press, radio, film, art and budgetary questions were formed. A second meeting was held on February 8th at the invitation of Dr. Goebbels for the purpose of considering the working plans drawn up by the chairmen of the different sub-committees. The suggestion of Ministerial Councillor Haegert that an Olympic relay should be organized was responsible for the plan of the Secretary-General to hold a torch relay run from Olympia to Berlin, this idea having also been inspired by an antique relief of two Erotes at the Palazzo Colonna in Rome depicting a torch relay run. It was also decided at this meeting to emphasize and develop the artistic aspect in decorating the Capital City for the Games, to enlist the talents of German artists for the designing of posters, diplomas and medals, and to combine the Olympic Art Exhibition with a large national display which would bear the title, "Germany". The production of special Olympic publicity films was considered, the utilization of the press and radio for publicity purposes discussed, and a number of sporting measures for the purpose of arousing interest in the Olympic Games decided upon.
New Plans
At its meeting on January 22nd, 1933, the Executive Committee was in a position to make new plans as regards the centres of competition on the basis of the considerably changed state of affairs. The first problem was that of selecting halls for the indoor events such as wrestling, boxing and possibly also gymnastics, and we decided for the time being on one of the large halls at the Exhibition Grounds, the Municipal Authorities having generously offered to remove it from their own exhibition plans and place it at our disposal. It was not until 1935 that the erection of the Deutschland Hall was decided upon and we could relinquish our original plans. The exhibition hall would have been large enough, but to prepare it for sporting competitions would have required a considerable amount of expensive interior construction. It was at the same time decided not to erect temporary shooting ranges at the Reich Sport Field but to enlarge those at Wannsee, and the plans to construct a cycling track at the Reich Sport Field proved to be unfeasible. Another important step forward was the obtaining of official approval of Dr. Diem's suggestion to organize an international youth and student encampment and to invite each nation to send a group of 30 boys and young men, who would be the guests of Germany during the period of the Games.