Olympia Stadion Berlin – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Olympia Stadion Berlin. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Olympia Stadion Berlin
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The Olympiastadion in Berlin was built for the 1936 Summer Games, and this print comes from a photographic album Leni Riefenstahl assembled to document the XI Olympiad that year. Riefenstahl was already known as a filmmaker, and she was given extraordinary access to the Games, which were staged by the Nazi government as a showcase for the regime. The stadium, designed by Werner March, was meant to project monumental scale and national pride, and images like this one helped carry that message beyond Germany. The record notes that its attribution comes from an unverified caption card, so the print's exact details are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Leni Riefenstahl. This record contains unverified data from caption card. In album: XI Olympiade, Berlin 1936 / Leni Riefenstahl. Berlin: 1936. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,132 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151523 |
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