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1. The presention of the Games from the sporting point of view shall be governed by the Olympic regulations and rest exclusively in the hands of the President of the Organizing Committee, Dr. Lewald. 2. The participation of the German national team shall be supervised by the President of the German Olympic Commission, Reich Sport Leader von Tschammer und Osten. He shall also represent German sport in every connection and on every occasion unless he is substituted by the Reich Government itself or, in accordance with the Olympic Regulations, by the Organizing Committee. 3. All measures in the fields of publicity, press, radio, film and art shall be under the supervision of Secretary of State Funk in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda. 4. All public measures taken by the authorized Reich, State and local authorities to ensure the appropriate pres­ entation of the Festival shall be under the direction of Secretary of State Pfundtner of the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior. 5. The supervision of all police measures in connection with the Olympic Games shall be in the hands of Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police, Flimmler, while the Police President of Berlin, Count Helldorff, shall be entrusted with their execution. 6. Matters in connection with the Games which pertain to the National Socialist Party shall be decided by the Deputy Regional Leader, State Councillor Gôrlitzer. Through these decrees, the fields of authority of the Olympic committees and groups, the public authorities and the political organizations were distinctly defined. The Appropriation of the Necessary Funds The Organizing Committee could not rely upon any considerable income until the sale of admission tickets began, or in other words, until shortly before the beginning of the Games. The work of organization, however, as well as the Olympic constructions in Berlin and Kiel had to be completed long before this time. Everything arranged for the guests. English-speaking taxi-chauffeurs. The Reich Government therefore provided in its annual budget for 1933 the funds necessary for the organization of the Games and the installation of the necessary administrative apparatus. A PROVIDING FOR THE GUESTS decision of momentous importance to the Berlin Festival was that of the Reich Government in 1933 to finance the facilities for competition in Berlin, especially the Reich Sport Field, and the General Administrative and Financial Measures of the Reich, the State of Prussia necessary constructions on the regatta course in Griinau with state funds. Additional means were and the Capital City, Berlin also appropriated at a later date for the erection of a yachting home and the extension of the Olympic Harbour in Kiel. The German Army under the Reich War Minister, Field-Marshal von Blomberg, In preparing for and presenting the Eleventh Olympic Games the Organizing Committee performed offered especially valuable service to the Olympic cause through constructing and equipping the a task which gained the unqualified recognition of the entire world. This success would not have Olympic Village, while the assistance rendered by the German Railway, Post Office Department been possible in its full extent, however, had not the Reich, the State of Prussia and the Capital and Broadcasting Company was also considerable. The Reich Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, City solved in advance the extensive administrative and financial questions which an international authorized the appropriation of funds for an extensive publicity campaign in Germany and abroad. event such as the Eleventh Olympic Games always entails. During more than three years of cooperation between the Organizing Committee and the Reich, The financial cooperation of the State of Prussia was especially significant in two connections. Prussia and the City of Berlin, the facts were always borne in mind that the Games themselves In 1933, the Premier of Prussia, General Goring, and the Prussian Minister of Finance, Professor are an international event, that their presentation is the exclusive affair of the various Olympic Popitz, responded to the request of the Reich Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick, by agreeing to committees and groups, that the Public Authorities are concerned only with the task of guaranteeing sell the land necessary for the Reich Sport Field to the Reich at a price which was not equal to an appropriate presentation of the Festival and that in this connection support should be granted one-sixth of its selling value. Prussia thus contributed in a truly generous manner in the creation in every way possible. The entire National Socialist Organization recognized the same principles, of this great sporting centre. A further financial obligation of considerable proportions which was and the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick, the Deputy of the Fiihrer, Reich met by Prussia alone was the providing of a comprehensive auxiliary policing system during the Minister Hess, and the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, expressed this fundamental period of the Festival. The Berlin and Kiel Police Departments carried out extensive organizing attitude in the following directions: measures with the result that all of the Olympic presentations as well as the unusual amount of 372 373 Source : Bibliothèque du CIO / IOC Library tratfic during the Games progressed without disturbance of any kind. In each city it was necessary visitors and the extension and increasing of the municipal traffic service all required the expen­ to reinforce the local personnel through additional officials from other cities and to train the entire diture of considerable funds. force in view of the countless additional services it was called upon to perform. The additional The Olympic Constmctions technical installations and equipment necessary for carrying out the police duties were also adequately provided. In order to secure streets of approach to the Reich Sport Field which would be adequate The great variety in the modern Olympic competitions required numerous facilities and for meeting every demand, the City of Berlin was called upon to appropriate millions of marks, and constructions. The planning and erection of the Grunau regatta course, which is certainly one of the decoration of the streets, especially the "Via triumphalis" leading from the Town Hall to the the most attractive in the world, provided no special difficulties for the experienced administrative Olympic Stadium, the landscaping of the outlying sections of the city, the arrangements for the staff. A considerably greater task, however, was the completion of the Deutschland Hall with its cooperation of the Berlin school children in the Olympic Festival Play, the Olympic Transportation accommodations for 20,000 spectators in a remarkably short period of time, the cooperation of and Lodgings Bureau, the Interpreter Service, the accommodations for the youthful Olympic the Municipal Authorities and the Reich Sport Leader being enjoyed in this case. Naturally, the 374 375 Source : Bibliothèque du CIO / IOC Library most extensive administrative project was the construction of the Reich Sport Field, of which The year 1934 was devoted largely to the planning of the construction programme for the Reich the Olympic Stadium provided the central and most important part, and which in its entire extent Sport Field. On October 31st, 1934 the Fiihrer again visited the premises, on which occasion he resembled a sporting city. The execution of this task alone deserves a short comprehensive description. approved the plans for the various constructions and made important suggestions concerning their execution and the type of material to be used. He was also in favour of the plans for municipal The stupendous proportions and also the fundamental plans for the Reich Sport Field are due to improvements and street building in connection with the Games. The suggestion that the Reich the German Chancellor himself. After a personal inspection of the land designated for this purpose Sport Field be adorned with modern works of art met with his hearty approval. The incorporation on October 5th, 1933 he issued the following directions: of the Reich Sport Field into the entire Grunewald district from the point of view of landscaping "An Olympic Stadium with accommodations for 100,000 spectators will be erected, and a swimming stadium was solved through the creation of a fringe of trees and shrubbery around the entire plot. and equestrian field will also be included. Adjoining the Stadium there will be a parade ground adequate for large A new network of streets with seven radial roads of approach was planned in order to accommodate demonstrations. A spacious open-air theatre will be constructed in the attractive Murellen valley in the north­ the masses of spectators during the Games. A bridge 91 feet wide led to the eastern main entrance of west corner of the Stadium grounds. The partially completed German Sport Forum will be increased through the extension of the gymnasium building and through the construction of a new swimming hall, dormitory and the Olympic Stadium, a second bridge 58.5 feet wide was constructed on the street of approach especially a large administrative and instruction building to be known as the 'House of German Sport'." to the western entrance of the May Field, and two existing bridges were widened from 38 to 94 and 104 feet respectively. Parking space for 8,000 cars was provided at the Reich Sport Field and The German Reich was responsible for the completion of this extensive project, and it was placed in its immediate vicinity, and the German Railway enlarged the two Municipal Railway Stations under the personal direction of the Reich Minister of the Interior, he being responsible for the in the vicinity of the Reich Sport Field to the extent that 50,000 people could be accommodated in Olympic preparations and German sport in general. His first task was to clear up all legal questions one hour.

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