"Ebony Antelopes" Gallop from Aryan Superiority , the IOC (International Olympic Committee) awarded the 1936 Summer Games to Berlin. It was Germany's return to the world after its defeat in the First World War. In 1934, Adolf Hitler became the Fürher of Germany and ruled until 1945. The epicenter of Germany was torn apart by Hitler's unyielding anti-Semitic crusade. Thus, this led to a decrease in Berlin's economic and intellectual sustenance due to the fact that the Jewish population made up the majority of it. Fights and public arguments were a daily occurrence in the streets of Berlin. On New Year's Eve 1933, a passerby on a bicycle shot a seamstress and shouted: "Heil Hitler!" before leaving. The “happy” city of Berlin was in great turmoil. By early 1935, Berlin-Weimar had dug itself into a mile-deep chasm, filled with “cultural corruption and political disorientation” (Large 255). In 1933, the American Amateur Athletic Union was denied a boycott to move the 1936 Games to Rome or Tokyo. This boycott was later deemed "futile", because the Germans shortly after revoked the ban on Jewish athletes participating in the Games. Joseph Goebbles, the Reich Minister of Nazi Propaganda, and the rest of the Nazi regime were furious that Jewish athletes were allowed to compete because massive numbers of Jews were streaming in from the surrounding provinces. Their fury was contained in the name of the image of the next Games. As the Eleventh Olympiad progressed in August 1936, one athlete in particular countered the Nazi racial ideology of Aryan superiority. Jesse Owens, a black American athlete, won four gold medals and established numerous victories in middle of paper ......nningham, as well as their reception by the German people during their participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936. It addresses the titanic struggle between fascist Nazis and democracy, and shows how politics and sport are inseparable. Walters used Jesse Owens: An American Life by J. William Baker in 1986, and The Berlin Olympics, 1936: Black American Athletes Counter Nazi Propaganda The Berlin Olympics, 1936: Black American Athletes Counter Nazi Propaganda by Franklin Watts in 1975. This source addresses the German public's reaction to the arrival and performance of Jesse Owens, as well as the Nazis' "hands-off" attitude toward Owens' monumental exploits. The views of radical Nazis and some neutral onlookers create a comprehensive compilation of German reactions as a whole. Wels, Susan. The Olympic spirit: 100 years of Games. Del Mar: Tehabi Books, 1995. Print.

Essay / "Ebony Antelopes" Gallop from Aryan Superiority , the IOC (International Olympic Committee) awarded the 1936 Summer Games to Berlin. It was Germany's return to the world after its defeat in the First World War. In 1934, Adolf Hitler became the Fürher of Germany and ruled until 1945. The epicenter of Germany was torn apart by Hitler's unyielding anti-Semitic crusade. Thus, this led to a decrease in Berlin's economic and intellectual sustenance due to the fact that the Jewish population made up the majority of it. Fights and public arguments were a daily occurrence in the streets of Berlin. On New Year's Eve 1933, a passerby on a bicycle shot a seamstress and shouted: "Heil Hitler!" before leaving. The “happy” city of Berlin was in great turmoil. By early 1935, Berlin-Weimar had dug itself into a mile-deep chasm, filled with “cultural corruption and political disorientation” (Large 255). In 1933, the American Amateur Athletic Union was denied a boycott to move the 1936 Games to Rome or Tokyo. This boycott was later deemed "futile", because the Germans shortly after revoked the ban on Jewish athletes participating in the Games. Joseph Goebbles, the Reich Minister of Nazi Propaganda, and the rest of the Nazi regime were furious that Jewish athletes were allowed to compete because massive numbers of Jews were streaming in from the surrounding provinces. Their fury was contained in the name of the image of the next Games. As the Eleventh Olympiad progressed in August 1936, one athlete in particular countered the Nazi racial ideology of Aryan superiority. Jesse Owens, a black American athlete, won four gold medals and established numerous victories in middle of paper ......nningham, as well as their reception by the German people during their participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936. It addresses the titanic struggle between fascist Nazis and democracy, and shows how politics and sport are inseparable. Walters used Jesse Owens: An American Life by J. William Baker in 1986, and The Berlin Olympics, 1936: Black American Athletes Counter Nazi Propaganda The Berlin Olympics, 1936: Black American Athletes Counter Nazi Propaganda by Franklin Watts in 1975. This source addresses the German public's reaction to the arrival and performance of Jesse Owens, as well as the Nazis' "hands-off" attitude toward Owens' monumental exploits. The views of radical Nazis and some neutral onlookers create a comprehensive compilation of German reactions as a whole. Wels, Susan. The Olympic spirit: 100 years of Games. Del Mar: Tehabi Books, 1995. Print.

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