Berlin 1936 Abandoned Olympic Village

This is a video made in 2009 during a walkthrough of the Berlin Olympic Village in 1936, including some footage of abandoned venues and the Olympic pool.  Though it is not as telling as physical experience, it is still a haunting video to watch, as you get a sense of what these places once were, their past history embedded in physical objects and spaces.  You can get a sense of the austerity of the design, with white box apartment houses arranged in the village typology.  All of the structures seem to have some Fascist undertones in their construction – a communicative device that contributed to the 1936 games being known as the “Nazi Olympics,” just prior to the outbreak of WWII.  The memory of these cultural, political, and social events still lingers today.


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