American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay, and the long jump — made him a track and field great.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics were planned as a grand display of Nazi power, ... Jesse Owens, who is highlighted in an episode of “Hitler’s Olympics” on Revisionist History, ...

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) By Neil ...

Adolf Hitler during the Berlin Summer Olympics in 1936. Erich Andres—United Archives/Getty Images. Hitler was a devout reader of Greek mythology and drawn to the torch as a symbol of ancient Greece.

Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympic Games. The presentation took place in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the ...

Entering the 1936 Olympics, Hitler — whose antisemitic manifesto “Mein Kampf” had been published 11 years earlier — allowed Mayer to represent Germany as the country’s token Jew, in an ...