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Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth

By Michael Burgan

Book information

Publisher
Capstone
Year
2017
ISBN
9780756565367, 9780756555283, 9780756555320, 9780756555443
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12134982 bytes)
Series
Captured History Sports
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-20 11:13:32
History; Juvenile Nonfiction; Photography; Sociolo

Description

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.

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