When the games were over

Germany declared itself the winner with 89 German medals to 56 for the Americans.

Nazis efforts were successful. Visitors left with the impression that Germany was prosperous, well run, and hospitable. NY Times was announcing that Germany was back among the civilized nations and reporters called the event "the greatest publicity stunt in history". 

Hitler got the thing he needed most : Respectability, and there would be no more Olympic Games for the next dozen years.

Instead of competing with each other on athletic fields, the youth of many countries wound up killing each other on fields of battle in a new world war – a war Adolf Hitler was already planning.