They managed to hide their hatred of Jews during the games. The Nazi regime ordered that all propaganda posters be removed and that all anti-Semitic journalism be banned from newspapers6. The Olympic Games gave the world a nine-month period of relative calm. The opening ceremony took place at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and Adolf Hitler declared the games open. The writer Thomas Wolfe, who was present at the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, described the opening as an almost religious event, with the crowd shouting, swaying in unison, imploring Hitler, there was something frightening about it, his cult of personality. The Nazi regime took advantage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics to cleverly outwit spectators and journalists with a peaceful and tolerant attitude.