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Euro 2024: Spain vs England to be played in a former Nazi Olympic stadium
FirstpostBuilt for the 1936 Olympic Games, Berlin’s Olympic stadium, venue for the Euro 2024 final, still bears the scars of World War II and contains relics from its Nazi past. Built for the 1936 Olympic Games, Berlin’s Olympic stadium still bears the scars of World War II and contains relics from its Nazi past. AP Olympiastadion and the Reich Sports Field were damaged in the war, though the stadium escaped relatively unscathed compared to the devastation wrought by Allied bombers in more central areas of Berlin. Balmer said the stadium could use “a more prominent reminder of how and why places like this were built.” Marian Wajselfisz, a Holocaust survivor who co-founded Jewish soccer club Makkabi Berlin in 1970, also rued that fans visiting the stadium — including Sunday’s final — are not made more aware of Nazi atrocities against Jews.
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