The Nazi Olympics - Berlin 1936


	The Nazi Olympics - Berlin 1936
JohnWaterman
8-12-2008 1:08 PM
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JohnWaterman says:
A selection from an excellent exhibition by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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8-12-2008 1:09 PM
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The actual exhibition is on until August 24th.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d25cf849-886f-41ec-ae3a-84d6913bfafc/BD7B1A1A-6104-42A1-9E6F-A47FAFC2DB89/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=august_1936&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=august_1936&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=august_1936&lang=en"><SPAN class="SectionTitle">August 1936</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=august_1936&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/28A4E71C-3D03-4C56-AE7D-2FE86D53C154" alt="The last of 3,000 runners who carried the Olympic torch from Olympia, Greece, arrives in the Lustgarten in Berlin to light the Olympic Flame and start the 11th Summer Olympic Games." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=august_1936&lang=en">For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Minimizing its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion, the regime exploited the Games to impress many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=germany&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=germany&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=germany&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/117A1A15-4EC4-4A21-A531-328AD691AF37" alt="Hitler reviews 35,000 Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung--SA), members of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing. February 20, 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=sports&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=sports&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=sports&lang=en"><SPAN class="SectionTitle">Nazification of Sport</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=sports&lang=en"><DIV><SPAN class="Quote"><I>“German sport has only one task: to strengthen the character of the German people, imbuing it with the fighting spirit and steadfast camaraderie necessary in the struggle for its existence.”</I></SPAN><SPAN class="NormalText"> —Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, April 23, 1933</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=sports&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/20DFBDEA-6F9D-4CA1-A02A-533D7838A5AF" alt="The magazine <i>Das Deutsche Mädel</i> (The German Girl) portrays the “ideal” female Aryan athlete. August 1935." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=race_hygiene&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=race_hygiene&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=race_hygiene&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/383C8AE9-9ED9-4823-8FDB-C09893BCAB79" alt="The September 1936 issue of the Nazi anthropological and genetics journal <i>Volk und Rasse</i> (Folk and Race) links race, physical strength, and Olympic competition." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=race_hygiene&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/E5A78CF1-C505-4B98-B747-B9B7028DE63D" alt="This poster announces a regional Nazi Party festival of physical fitness in Leipzig. July 1935." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=regimentation&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=regimentation&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=regimentation&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/CC8F77C7-1473-477D-AD45-0C46ED29A8B8" alt="German police perform calisthenics in Berlin's Sport Palace, later the site of the Olympic handball competition." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=control_olympics&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=control_olympics&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=control_olympics&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/CE114300-1386-4F02-8211-2FFF7F602C05" alt="An athlete salutes Hitler during a sports demonstration in the Saarland as Reich Sports Office Director Hans von Tschammer und Osten looks on. 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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=world_responses_heartfield&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=world_responses_heartfield&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=world_responses_heartfield&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/1C778C9E-E7A5-4E48-BEA3-8FC9FA19C52F" alt="German artist John Heartfield's “Program of the Olympics” from the November 1935 issue of <i>Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung</i> (Workers' Illustrated Newspaper) satirizes the Nazi regime by listing fictional Olympic events. This newspaper was published by leftist German expatriates in Prague, Czechslovakia." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=counter_olympics&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=counter_olympics&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=counter_olympics&lang=en"><SPAN class="SectionTitle">Counter Olympics</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=counter_olympics&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/90B3B454-567F-4BA1-A2E2-A9881DA8EBE7" alt="Articles and illustrations from the Prague Games, Czechoslovakia." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=counter_olympics&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/E8361005-1D31-431B-B65D-03D0979E3C08" alt="The program is for the “People's Olympiad” in Barcelona, canceled when fighting broke out in Spain. The Spanish Republican forces were opposed by the army of Francisco Franco, who later received active military support from Germany and its Axis ally, Italy." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=1936_games&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=1936_games&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=1936_games&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/0356A1CB-A1E3-4233-9852-D9FAFE88FEFF" alt="The official poster for the Olympic Games, created by Nazi artist Frantz Wurbel, shows an Olympian rising above Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate. 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=nazi_propaganda&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=nazi_propaganda&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=nazi_propaganda&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/069FAD9A-8952-400D-8CFB-2A1056B1DF61" alt="A map displays the route of the torch relay from the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, to Berlin. The 1936 Olympics were the first to employ the torch run. 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/367EA8A7-58D6-49E8-BDD9-D9EA84A13501" alt="An insert for the Bremen Sunday newspaper shows scenes of several cities as they prepared for the Summer Games. 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality_more&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality_more&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=facade_hospitality_more&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/12B9750C-CC6C-4C4C-8094-B9B562A87D11" alt="Hitler entering the stadium with German Olympics' organizer Theodor Lewald and International Olympic Committee President Count Henri Baillet-Latour. August 1, 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=olympics&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=olympics&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=olympics&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/1C47E127-70F1-471C-B48C-ADF7964F36E4" alt="Spectators in the Olympic Stadium give the Nazi salute. 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Long was killed in action during World War II." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/BA70DB60-25AB-485F-B5CE-30085AB2A5A8" alt="Jesse Owens, “the fastest human being,” captured four gold medals and became the hero of the Olympics. In the long jump he leaped 26 feet 5-1/2 inches, an Olympic record. Immediately after the Games, Owens hoped to capitalize on his fame and quit the AAU's European tour of post-Olympic meets; for this action, the AAU suspended him from amateur competition. August 4, 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/F059388B-B49D-40D2-911C-563131667873" alt="John Woodruff won the 800-meter run, finishing in 1:52.9 minutes. Woodruff served as an officer in a racially segregated American Army unit during World War II." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/5C38E24D-4DA8-4E42-8630-F647A7CA7B47" alt="The United States high jump team swept their event at the Olympics. From left to right: Delos Thurber (bronze), Cornelius Johnson (gold), and David Albritton (silver). Johnson cleared the bar at 6 feet, 8 inches, an Olympic record. August 2, 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/8AA13BEB-BD29-492F-BB27-9CDBFDD507C5" alt="“Mack” Robinson took the silver in the 200-meter dash. His younger brother, Jackie, would become the first African-American player in major league baseball in 1947." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/E08C7ED2-4597-41AE-8C68-81C4F17F2670" alt="Archie Williams, from the University of California, Berkeley, won the 400-meter race with a mark of 46.5 seconds. During World War II, he served as an instructor for African-American fighter pilots at the segregated army airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_medals&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_medals&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_medals&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/177E339E-1299-40C4-90E1-B30378C83DA8" alt="African-American athletes won 14 medals, nearly one-fourth of the 56 medals awarded the U.S. team in all events. American journalists established a scoring system that gave 10 points to the first-place winner, and 5 to 1 points to the second- through sixth-place winners. The headline in this newspaper states that African-American athletes had won “70 of 187 U.S. points.” August 8, 1936." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_baltimore&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_baltimore&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=aa_athletes_baltimore&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/996A564C-D230-4C01-B0C1-9DA5A7661C54" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes&lang=en" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes&lang=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ushmm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes&lang=en">Jewish Athletes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/49841D27-756C-4397-BE5B-09C4AA333BDB" alt="Bowing to international pressure, the German Olympic Committee invited German Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann to compete at pre-Olympic qualifying meets. Returning to Germany from England where she had been studying and training, in June 1936 Bergmann equalled the German women's high jump record of 5 feet 3 inches at a trial meet in Stuttgart. But the Germans used only two of their three spots allocated for the high jump and dropped her from the competition." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes&lang=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ushmm.org/img/4ACD46AD-3EBB-414D-9443-5FA65B3CE05F" alt="Reich Sports Office Director von Tschammer und Osten notified Bergmann of his decision, offering her “standing room only” tickets to the Games. 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