Really, Mr. Putin? HITLER suspended its anti-gay laws during the 1936 Olympics, but Russia won't do the same for next year | Mail Online

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As gays and lesbians express outrage that Russia's anti-gay laws will bring a disturbing level of intolerance to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in the resort town of Sochi, it has emerged that Adolf Hitler, who instituted the most absolutist anti-homosexual laws in history, waived them for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

In on online essay titled 'The Facade of Hospitality,' the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum reports that 'in preparation for the arrival of Olympic spectators, Nazi officials ordered that foreign visitors should not be subjected to the criminal strictures of the Nazi anti-homosexual laws.'

Hitler has also promised the International Olympic Committee in 1935 that his government would take down anti-semitic signs and banners in Berlin during the summer games, and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen during the winter games, The New York Times reported then.