 The games of the 1936 Berlin Olympics were controversial for so many reasons, including the anti-Semitism not only in Germany, but on the part of the American Olympic Committee president, Avery Brundage. Despite the campaign of anti-Semitism on the part of the Nazis, Brundage pushed for the 1936 Berlin Games to take place. There was definite complicity between Brundage and the Nazi regime.