Berlin bids to host Olympics 100 years after Nazi Games

Berlin on Tuesday presented its proposal to hold the Summer Olympics, including a bid for the Games in 2036 that would fall exactly a century after the event was hosted by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Regime.

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"No matter where they take place, the 2036 Games will bring the Nazi Olympic Games from 1936 back into focus," Berlin's Mayor Kai Wegner said at the presentation.

Hosting the 2036 Games would show "a city which has changed in the past 100 years," Wegner said in the event held at the city's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1936 Games.

"No longer do we stand for exclusion and hate, but we instead are a colourful, diverse metropolis which is open to the world," he said.

Berlin joins Munich, hosts of the 1972 Olympics, Hamburg and a joint bid by cities in the heavily populated Rhine-Ruhr region vying to host the festival of sport.