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Olympic Gold 1936

How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth

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Olympic Gold 1936

By: Michael Burgan
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Jesse Owens’ gold-medal winning feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin struck a mighty propaganda blow against Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader had planned to use the German games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. Instead, there was American, Black athlete Owens on the podium being photographed by Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. In addition, Owens would figure prominently in the groundbreaking film Olympia by Hitler’s favorite director Leni Riefenstahl. Photo and film captured Owens’ stunning success and revealed how wrong Hitler was in his beliefs.

©2020 Michael Burgan (P)2017 Capstone Publishers, Inc.
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The story was very interesting and one I had never heard. However, the narration was sub-optimal. There were countless pauses mid-sentence, which made it hard to follow along. Some interjections sounded like it might have been the caption of a picture, but I am not sure.

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