The executive body of the committee which is charged with the task of organizing the Olympics arrangements was forced today to accept Dr. Wilfred Bade, an official of the Ministry for Propaganda and Enlightenment, as a full-fledged member, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned.
Dr. Bade was appointed to the committee by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels apparently for the purpose of seeing that the best use is made of the Olympic Games for Nazi propaganda on a worldwide scale.
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