Politics and its affect on the olympics

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This had no effect on the German ideal mainly because Germany saw sports to be their way of gaining revenge on all those enemies who had benefited from Germany's defeat in World War I (Hart Davis 64). When the games finally started on August 1, 1936, the "scene had been set" (Hart Davis 64)...
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All of the signs abusing Jews had been taken down, and the Nazis' re-opened all Jewish shops. The defining moment of the Berlin games was when Jesse Owens, a grandson of black slaves in Alabama, won four gold medals. After his win in the broad jump, white German Lutz Long, walked arm in arm with Owens, in front of Hitler (Frommer 60)...
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