Watch Jesse Owens Win Four Golds at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany
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The 1936 Olympics
the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose to power. Hitler was uninterested in hosting the Olympics until Minister for Public ...
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Olympic torch relay was created by the Nazis in 1936
On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...
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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 ... with Germany second, and Switzerland ...