Munich 1936 & Beijing 2022: Our Inability To Learn From History Is Our Greatest Undoing

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readFeb 7, 2022

It’s simply unacceptable

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In 1931, the decision was made to allow Germany to host the 1936 Olympics.

It didn’t matter to the IOC that Germany’s economy hadn’t fully recovered nor did it matter that reparation payments had stopped, everyone, it seemed was anxious to appease the vanquished…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible