Surfing on Hitler's show grounds: new plan for Berlin's Olympic Park

City considers €150m scheme to turn Nazi-era park into hotspot particularly for new Olympic sports

For Adolf Hitler, the Berlin Olympiapark was a gallery to showcase his taste in art and architecture, the ultimate aesthetic expression of his totalitarian political ambition, and the setting for the propaganda coup of the 1936 Nazi Olympics.

But since the complex was handed back to the German capital’s senate in 1994, the city has struggled to find an acceptable use for the most ideologically overburdened of the remaining Third Reich relics.

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