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Opinion Paris overturned the Olympics’ Nazi traditions. L.A. 2028 can follow its example. The Nazis used the 1936 Games as a propaganda tool. Paris upended that history.
Malcolm Gladwell isn’t most people. Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the latest season of his podcast series “Revisionist History.” ...
The 1936 Berlin Olympics were planned as a grand display of Nazi power, designed to project an image of German superiority and national pride to the world. Shortly after coming to power, Hitler ...
In a conversation with JTA, Gladwell explains Hitler’s lasting influence on the Olympics and gives his take on the veracity of calls to ban Israeli athletes from international competition.
As the 1936 Berlin Olympics neared, Detroit's Howell King beat the best in the city and nation inside the boxing ring. However, King had no defense for U.S. Olympic officials that KO'd his dreams.
Due to World War II, there were no Olympics in 1940 or 1944. At the 1948 Olympics in London, Müller-Preis won the bronze medal again while representing Austria.
The three women’s foil fencing champions from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, from left to right: Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Helene Mayer and Ellen Müller-Preis. (Ullstein bild via Getty Images) ...
In reading Waters’s account of Koubek and other trans and intersex athletes’ lives, it all feels like those Olympics were a breaking point. The Nazi era has substantially shaped the ...