2. Jesse Owens Puts the Aryan Race to Shame
So-called “Hitler Olympics” were riddled with controversies and scandals from day one. 1936 wasn’t really the best year for Berlin Olympics, but that train is long gone now anyway. Apart from certain boycotts, banning of Jewish athletes from the German team, obvious favoring of German athletes, Berlin games will be remembered thanks to Jesse Owens. African American athlete won four golden medals and inflicted a crushing blow to Hitler’s master race supremacy theory.
