Preparations

The vast Olympic stadium was completed on time and held 100,000 spectators. 150 other new Olympic buildings were completed on time for the event.

A carefully constructed tone developed and discourse against the Jewish people softened.
The anti-Semitic posters that had littered Germany before the games had disappeared. Signs that stated "Jews not welcome here" were not longer visible.

Police arrested all Gypsies prior to the Games. On July 16, 1936, some 800 gypsies were 

arrested and interned under police guard in a special Gypsy camp in the Berlin suburb of 

Marzahn.

Also in preparation for the arrival of Olympic spectators, Nazi officials ordered that foreign 

visitors should not be subjected to the criminal strictures of the Nazi anti-homosexual laws.