During the games they managed to hide their hatred towards the Jews. The Nazi regime ordered the removal of all propaganda posters and the exclusion of all anti-sematic journalism from newspapers6. The Olympic Games had given the world a nine-month period of relative calm. The opening ceremony was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and Adolf Hitler declared the games open. The writer Thomas Wolfe, who was present at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, described the inauguration as an almost religious event, the crowd screaming, swaying in unison, imploring Hitler, there was something frightening in this , his cult of personality. The Nazi regime exploited the 1936 Berlin Olympics to cleverly deceive spectators and journalists with a peaceful and tolerant attitude.