PARK RAPIDS -- Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning continues its spring online series with a presentation from David Jones on "1936 Olympics: The Nazi Games."
Jones, a resident of Minneapolis and graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, has been making presentations since 1996 and has spoken more than 1,500 times to a total of more than 40,000 people, a release said.
The 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin are notorious for the tightly controlled image the Nazis presented to the world. But, these Games also became a blueprint for future Games that is followed to the present day. The program examines the history of the Olympics and the complicated legacy of the 1936 Games, the release said.
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The program is offered free of charge on YouTube and may be accessed any time during March or April by visiting HCLL's Facebook page .
