As Hitler rose to power in Germany and barred Jewish athletes from competing in the summer ... gold medalist Jesse Owens of the United States and silver medalist Lutz Long of Germany. Aug. 11, 1936.

I t was no surprise that the 1936 Summer Olympics were going to be complicated. The wrangling had begun months before the games, as the U.S. considered whether to pull out of the games over the ...

Germany has restored a national high-jump record from 1936 to 95-year-old Margaret Bergmann Lambert of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., whom the Nazis had disqualified because she was Jewish.

Germany restored the 1936 high jump record to a Jewish woman. Gretel Bergmann was kicked off the German 1936 Olympic track and field team, which she joined in 1934, because she was Jewish, despite ...

1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the 1936 Winter Games, which were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen three years before ...

The federal agency responsible for registering Americans for a military draft if the need arises reposted a message suggesting that the U.S. is becoming 1936 Nazi Germany, reports say. The post ...

Into the Shadows. The 1936 Olympic Games: Nazi Germany’s Gambit! Posted: February 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Unraveling the Truth Behind the 1936 Olympics in Berlin | A Triumph of ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

VIENNA, July 11, 1936 (UP) - Austria and Germany buried the hatchet today after 10 years of bloodshed and warfare over Nazi attempts to dominate this country. Chancellor Kurt Schurschnigg and ...