The Aryan Games () were a proposed replacement for the

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. Proposed by

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sports organizer

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and subsequently adopted by

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, these multi-sport games were supposed to be housed permanently in

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at the planned " German Stadium", that had been designed by Nazi architect

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, but was never built. The idea was originally entertained in 1939 by Carl Diem, chief organiser of the

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in Berlin, who ahead of the 1936 Olympics was already noted for claiming that " Germanics may only be defeated by other Germanics," which turned out not to be the case. The idea was subsequently adopted by Hitler, who told Albert Speer that once the German Stadium was built, there would be no more Olympic Games, only the Aryan Games."Hitler's Secret Weapon: Propaganda Through Athletics"
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