 But Hitler did not want such a stadium to serve merely as a centre for German athletic sport.The restored Panathenaic Stadium had been used for the 1896 Summer Olympics and the 1906 Intercalated Games, held out of series.In 1936 these games were held in the "Reichssportfeld" in Berlin, but Hitler insisted that after 1940, when the games were to have been held in Tokyo, all future games were to be held in the "Deutsches Stadion".