Berlin Games (57 page)

Vansittart, Sir Robert (permanent under-secretary at British FO); and Hitler's proposed occupation of the Rhineland; on Ribbentrop; on Hitler; warning to Phipps; and Ribbentrop; and Channon; visit to Berlin Games; and Eden's questionnaire to Hitler; meeting with Hitler; meeting with Goering; request for new conference; on Spanish civil war; on Goebbels; Goebbels on; meeting with Goebbels; at Ribbentrop's party; meeting with Ribbentrop; dinner given by Hitler for; on amateur status of athletes; on danger from Germany; blamed by Ribbentrop for Second World War; continued diplomatic career after Berlin Games

Vansittart, Sarita, Lady; at Hitler's banquet for Vansittart

Variety
: on
Tarzan's Revenge

venue for Olympic Games
see
Olympic Games, venue

Venzke, Gene (American athlete): plane spotting

Versailles, Treaty of (1919); Hitler on; and German rearmament; Baedeker guide on

Vienna: IOC meeting in 1933

Vietinghoff, Lt von

Vinogradov, Boris (NKVD officer)

Vogt, Richard (German boxer)

von Halt, Dr Karl Ritter: at Barcelona meeting in 1931; and Baillet-Latour's concern over Games; at Vienna IOC meeting, 1933; at Athens convention in 1934; meeting with Brundage in Stockholm and Germany; at 1936 Winter Games; as replacement for Lewald on IOC executive; on executive committee of IOC; help from Brundage after Second World War; in Second World War

von Hoesch
see
Hoesch

von Neurath
see
Neurath

von Ribbentrop
see
Ribbentrop

von Tschammer und Osten, Hans
see
Tschammer und Osten, Hans von

 

Waalberg (Dutch swimmer)

Wagner, Adolf (Bavarian minister of the interior)

Wagner, Richard: music used in Berlin Games

Walsh, Stella (Stanislawa Walasiewiczówna; Polish-American athlete)

Walsh, Tom (writer for Holm)

Wangenheim, Lt Freiherr von (Germany three-day eventer)

Wangenheim, Baroness Johanna von: in charge of Friesian House; on Nazi regime

war
see
Second World War

Washburn, Albert Lincoln ‘Link' (American skier); finance for 1936 Winter Games; on Hitler's arrival at Winter Games; in downhill competition; in downhill and slalom competition

Washburn, Tahoe

Washington University: eights crew

Wayne, Marshall (American diver)

weather conditions: 100 metres; tail winds; 1936 Winter Games; US Olympic try-out finals; in Berlin at start of Games; high jump; fencing; long jump; pentathlon; Goebbels' party; swimming; rowing; hockey final; after Berlin Games

Webb, Violet (British hurdler)

Webster, Dick (British pole vaulter), on proposed boycott of Games

‘Week of Laughter'

weightlifting: US;
see also
Ismayr

Weimar Republic

Weimbeir, Fräulein: on Nazi regime

Weinkoetz (German high jumper)

Weissdorn
see
Operation Weissdorn

Wellington, Duke of

Wenzel, Esther (American visitor to Berlin)

Wessel, Horst: grave as monument;
see also
Horst Wessel Song

Whalen, Tom: marriage to Holm

Whitlock, Harold (British athlete)

Whittingham, Jack (British athlete)

Wiedemann, Fritz: on anti-Semitic signs and Hitler

Wigram, Ralph: on inevitability of war

Williams, Archie (American athlete): in 400 metres final; plane spotting

Wingard, Lenore (American swimmer)

Winter Olympics: 1924 in Chamonix; 1932 in Lake Placid, New York; 1928 in St Moritz, boycott; 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: US decision to attend; weather; US team; practice runs; opening ceremony; figure skating championships; skiing championships; speed skating championships; controversies; ice hockey tournament; closing ceremony; medals; overcrowding; accusations of cheating by officials; bureaucracy; importance to Hitler; organisation

Wise, Rabbi Stephen

Woellke, Hans (German athlete)

Wolfe, Thomas (American novelist); on Owens' achievement; on German military; on Germany during Games; on strength of Germany; on falsehoods in Berlin Games

women athletes: need for segregation; sex questioned

Women's Swimming Association of New York

Woodruff, John (American athlete)

Woolf, Freddy (British athlete)

working class athletes, Britain

world records: swimming; individual track events; field events; decathlon; marathon; relays

World Sports

Wortmann, Dietrich; on proposed boycott of 1936 Games; Nazi sympathies; fund-raising letter to German-Americans; as Olympic sportsman; support for Olympics

wrestling

Wykoff, Frank (American athlete): in 100 metres final; in US try-out finals; in 100 metres semi-final; and relay final; in relay final

 

yachting competitions

Yack, Norman (Canadian Jewish boxer)

Yata (Japanese high jumper)

Yoshioka (Japanese athlete)

Young (American athlete): in relay final

Youth Service
see
Honorary Youth Service (German)

 

Zabala, Carlos (Argentinian marathon runner)

Zamperini, Lou (American athlete): on voyage to Germany; and Brundage's sacking of Holm; on Olympic village; on German military presence in Olympic village; on military presence at Olympic village; on opening ceremony; on Owens

Zanchi, Madame Lydia: salvage of Olympic papers

Ziegfeld, Florenz: on Holm

G
UY
W
ALTERS
is the author of
The Traitor, The Leader, The Occupation,
and
The Colditz Legacy,
all of which were bestsellers in the U.K., and coeditor of
The Voice of War,
an anthology of World War II memoirs. A regular contributor on historical subjects for the
Daily Mail,
Walters was a journalist for
The Times
(London) for eight years, where he worked as a feature writer and commissioning editor. He is married to the author Annabel Venning and they have two children.

www.guywalters.com

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