Can we compare Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics to Beijing 2008?

I don't think so.

Did Germany feed 1.3 Billion people? No. China does.

It's hard to tell what the similarities are without knowing the minds of the Chinese leaders.

For example, Hitler used the '36 Olympics as a barometer, to see what possible opposition Germany would experience when Hitler sent troops to re-take land that had been lost by Germany to France at the end of WWI as a part of the Treaty of Versailles.

Are the Chinese leaders in any way using the Olympics as a way of telling who might oppose their crushing Tibet?

Or who might continue to oppose their internal human rights violations (including massacring millions of unborn and newly born children [mostly girls] annually)?

One similarity stands out. Hitler did clearly use the '36 Olympics to demonstrate the health and prosperity of the German nation, risen from the ashes of WWI. The Chinese leaders are certainly using the Olympics to demonstrate how "modern" China is, through ugly, ugly housing developments that replace the old buildings, many of which were as much as 600 years old.

Some have said that Germany with its Aryan race felt superior to all others; and the Chinese in general feel superior to all other peoples. If this is true, and I say if, then we can argue that both nations haved used, and will use, the Olympics to demonstrate racial superiority.

If this latter proposition is true, than we can say that the '36 and '08 games are similar in that non-Aryan athletes, most notably Jesse Owens, won competitions over the Aryans. And we can expect non-Chinese athletes, and especially Korean and Japanese athletes, to win competitions over Chinese athletes.

Another potential similarity exists in the protests that preceded the '36 Olympics and the protests preceding the '08 Olympics. Several (smaller) nations (unsuccessfully) boycotted the '36 games, protesting the Nazis' persecution and oppression of Jews. Similarly, individuals, and soon nations, will be protesting by attacking the torch or threatening boycott, China's oppression of the Tibetans.

Ostensibly, this also parallels the U.S.'s protest and boycott of the Moscow Olympics (1980) because of the Soviets' oppression of the Afghans.

No.As your first answer says:"You can compare anything".

Berlin in 1936 is different from Beijing in 2008.

By China opening up to the world,it

will be exposed to far greater scrutiny.

It would be a mistake to boycott this years summer Olympics in Beijing,given this opportunity.

1980 Moscow Olympics=2008 China Olympics

The repression is not about race or any racial hate. This is about political hatred towards separatists and Democracy-loving liberals.

Yes that is abusive.

Dont listen to the simplistic, self indulgent commie bashing propaganda that the media is feeding you. The 'news' you see is so shamelessly distorted by shallow, ignorant agenda pushing anchors that you're better off tuning out and not getting false information and outright lies slipping into your mind.

of course not

you can compare anything.