The international sporting event that humiliated the United States and the lying Press.

The Berlin event was unique because it had the largest number of foreign athletes. This was a first in the history of the Olympics.

The Berlin Olympic Village was so beautifully designed that every Olympic village since has been modelled on it.

The Berlin stadium boasted seating for 100,000 spectators. Attending were four million fans and journalists from 41 nations.

The Berlin Olympics were the first to be televised.  Competing in the 1936 Games were a record number of participants: 4066 athlete,s including 331 women from 49 countries.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are invariably mentioned by mainstream media.

They often describe it as the Olympics during which American Negro, Jesse Owens, ‘humiliated Nazi Germany.’

He also ‘destroyed the myth of Aryan superiority.’  The truth is quite the opposite.  

Jesse Owens was a fine athlete and citizen of one of the world’s most racist countries. 

The contrast between the United States and the Workers’ Reich would have been quite remarkable. This would be especially true for this humble and likeable ex-cotton picker.

LEFT. An excited American woman tries to steal a kiss from Germany’s head of state.

In Hitler’s Germany, Jesse Owens would share a bus or tram ride with white people. 

Treated equally in all respects, the athlete enjoyed movies accompanied by German friends.

Unlike the United States, the sprinter would use the same toilet facilities. He dined with Europeans in restaurants. He stayed in hotels without facing discrimination. 

There was much that the track athlete would do in Hitler’s Germany forbidden to colored people in the United States.

In his homeland coloreds were required to eat apart from White associates and fellow athletes. 

If coloreds approached a hotel, they were required to do so through the tradesman’s entrance. There were no Negroes on any major league baseball team and no Negro swimmers.

This was in the so-called enlightened north. In the southern states, there was no possibility of a Negro participating in any sport. He could only compete with other Negroes. 

For Jesse Owens, his days in Hitler’s Germany must have been blissful.

The German people idolised him. His Jewish biographer, Richard D. Mandell writes: ‘Once at the stadium, Jesse Owens’s neatly moulded head would appear from some pit below the stands. This mere appearance would cause sections of the crowd to erupt. They chanted enthusiastically.

LEFT. Colored athletes were as welcome as any other athletes.

Awakening in the Olympic Village, the Olympian was greeted by paparazzi and amateur photographers.

Hordes of newsmen and women gathered outside his bedroom window. They wanted to click at the athlete before he would gather poise. It was for one of his many appearances before the mobs in Berlin.’

The coloured athlete’s coach, Lawrence N. Snyder wrote in the Saturday Evening Post, November 7, 1936, ‘Jesse Owens was cheered as loudly as any Aryan.’

The recycled media lie is about the ‘Nazi Olympics’. It claims that Adolf Hitler snubbed Jesse Owens by refusing to shake his hand.  What are the facts?

The twice-elected German leader participated in the first day of the Berlin Olympics. He did indeed shake the hands of several successful competitors.

That same evening, the Führer received a message from Count Baillet-Latour.

The President of the International Olympic Committee respectfully pointed out that he was ‘a guest of honour at the Games.’ He added that he should congratulate all or none, at least in public.

In common with all other national leaders, Germany’s head of state chose the latter as being the most sensible course. 

With 156 gold medals being awarded at various locations and times, it was physically impossible to congratulate every winner.

Jesse Owens was not congratulated by the Führer, nor were any successful competitors, white or otherwise.   

It is interesting to note that America’s President Roosevelt refused to meet the coloured athlete. This happened despite there being no restriction imposed upon his doing so.

Jesse Owens reflected on a specific moment during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

He said: ‘When I passed the (German) Chancellor, he arose. He waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him.  I think the writers showed bad taste in criticising the man of the hour in Germany.’

On their arrival in London, Owens and his coach, Larry Snyder, complained that they felt like ‘trained seals’.  The two were subjected to a barrage of ‘fraudulent publicity offers.’

Such was the lack of integrity and respect shown to the pair that they refused further engagements.

Time was to prove Larry Snyder and Jesse Owens right, as none of the publicity offers came to anything. However, big name promoters like Eddy Cantor did receive free of charge much favourable publicity.

Norman Katkov is the author of Jesse Owens Revisited. The World of Sport, p.289):

‘Back home in the United States, Jesse Owens was treated like a freak and an animal. ‘Before curious crowds, he raced horses (and won).  He ran against cars, trucks, dogs, and baseball players with a head start.’

This was a 1930’s America that had seen 26 Negroes lynched. It was an America where Negroes used separate public facilities. Non-Whites were schooled at all-black schools.

In contrast to the Workers Reich, non-Whites in the United States were segregated from white people in public places. This included restaurants, cinemas, hotels, and stadiums, among others.  

What about the claim that ‘Owens swept the scoreboard and destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan superiority.

RIGHT: Rudolf and Ilse Hess were two of many German leaders attending the Olympics.

Inconvenient Facts: The Workers Reich earned a total of 101 medals, 41 of which were gold and gathered an impressive 223 points.  

Germany’s only credible rival was the United States.  Though three times Germany’s population the U.S. won 40% fewer medals and points than did Hitler’s Germany.

United States athletes gained 25 gold medals, four of which were awarded to Jesse Owens.

The U.S. points total tally was a mediocre 132 points.  America’s geographical size and its reliance on coloured athletes did little to reduce its humiliation.

Despite the U.S. boasting many coloured sportsmen, the combined total of medals awarded to such athletes amounted to only eleven gongs.

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The outcome suggested that coloured athletes simply do not match the performance of their ethnic-European rivals.

Adolf Hitler’s Germany won more gold medals than the United States, Great Britain, India, Canada, Argentina, France, and Norway combined.

These countries’ total population stands at 1,160 million. They are 14 times larger in population size compared to Germany’s population. 

AUTHOR’S NOTE: During the current Olympics, the myths will be recycled by idle journalists and sports columnists. 

You can easily email this true history article to them. Alternatively, you can quote from this article when the Jesse Owens myth appears in readers comment. This true account, with many others, is published in WITNESS TO HISTORY by Mike Walsh.

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