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Detroit boxer Howell King dismissed from 1936 Olympics was ‘injustice’
Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. That boxer was Howell King. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where legendary runner Jesse Owens registered what many called a “blow to the Nazi ...
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The 1936 Olympics
Hitler was uninterested in hosting the Olympics until Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels convinced him that they could advance the Nazi cause and showcase the ...
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Radio Coverage of the 1936 Olympics
Radios across the world were tuned in on August 14, 1936 when nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold at Hitler's Olympics. Listen to the original radio broadcast ...
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Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler ‘gave us the Olympics we have today’
Malcolm Gladwell isn’t most people. Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics on the latest season of his podcast series “Revisionist History.” ...
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1936 - Berlin
Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...
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Jewish athlete barred from 1936 Berlin Olympics dies at 103
(JTA) — Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a high jumper who was barred from the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish, died in New York at 103. Her niece, Doris Bergman, confirmed that Lambert ...
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The Jesse Owens Olympics: Berlin 1936
The Jesse Owens Olympics: Berlin 1936 Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority ...