Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

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In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games i...

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Main Author: Schaap, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Mariner Books, 2008.
Edition:1st Mariner books ed.
Subjects:
Owens, Jesse, > 1913-1980.
Glickman, Marty, > 1917-2001.
Stoller, Sam, > 1915-1983.
Owens, Jesse > 1913-1980
Olympic Games > (11th : > 1936 : > Berlin, Germany)
Olympische Spiele > 11. > 1936 > Berlin
Track and field athletes > United States > Biography.
African American athletes > Biography.
Jewish athletes > United States > Biography.
Olympics > Participation, American.
National socialism > Philosophy.
Racism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Rassismus.
Antisemitismus.
Deutschland.

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