Distinguishing yourself as an athlete with great leaping ability was perhaps made a bit more difficult in 1936, with the debut of the trampoline. No worries though, athletes, and all out- door lovers had a new trade-mark: Polaroid sunglasses. The Berlin Olympic Games marked one of the last international gatherings in a Europe that would soon be ripped apart by a second world war. The war was being plotted in the Olympic city itself, as Mussolini and Hitler devised the formation of their Rome- Berlin Axis | ||||