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Tous sports - JO - Le stade olympique de Berlin. (A .Mounic/L'Équipe)

The German government said Monday that there is no question that Berlin is proposing a bid for the organization of the Olympic Games in 2036. Indeed, they will take place 100 years after those held in the German capital, while the Nazis were in power in Germany. Adolf Hitler had also used these Olympics for propaganda purposes.

"It would be unthinkable. If we did, we would provoke an international outcry and we would harm the Olympic image, said Horst Seehofer, the Minister of the Interior, also responsible for Sports, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. How would people perceive it around the world? Germany celebrates the centenary of the Nazi Olympic Games? It can not happen. "

In March, Andreas Geisel, the Berlin Minister of State for the Interior, was strongly criticized after having suggested a Berlin candidacy for the 2036 edition. Beyond this reference to Games of 1936, the Germans are not very favorable to the idea of hosting Olympics. Voters had already refused in 2013 and 2015, in local referendums, applications from Hamburg to the Summer Games and Munich to those of winter.

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