The Berlin Olympics in 1936 stopped the planned Holocaust. Randy is completely right.
They didn’t legitimize and humanize the Nazi regime.
In fact, just after the Olympics, Nazi Germany became the most open and free country in horrible tyrannical Europe surrounded by radical terrorist states like France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria.
“Hitler saw the Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and
antisemitism, and the official Nazi party paper, the
Völkischer Beobachter, wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games.
[2][3]When threatened with a boycott of the Games by other nations, Hitler appeared to allow athletes of other ethnicities from other countries to participate.
[4] However, German Jewish athletes were barred or prevented from taking part by a variety of methods
[5] and Jewish athletes from other countries (notably the US) seem to have been side-lined in order not to offend the Nazi regime.
[6]”
Sound familiar.
BTW Bin Laden was a Saudi.