People head to see the Olympics in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Germany won the rights to host the games in 1931 and The Third Reich planned it to be the greatest public event in history at that time. Other countries even considered boycotted the games fearful of what Germany would do with their propaganda if they did well at the games. Hitler even had the event broadcasted for the first time, with the most powerful signal ever sent into space at that time. It was a display of power and wealth from the rebuilt German economy.