The
1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the
IV Olympic Winter Games (French: Les
IVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) (German:
Olympische Winterspiele 1936), were a winter
multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the
market town of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen in
Bavaria,
Germany. Germany also hosted the
Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin. 1936 is the last year in which the Summer and Winter Games were both held in the same country (the cancelled
1940 games would have been held in
Japan, with that country likewise hosting the Winter and Summer games).