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Haley Bracken was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2018 and 2019. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature and political...
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Was Jesse Owens snubbed by Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics?
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Haley Bracken
Haley Bracken was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2018 and 2019. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature and political...
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By early 1933 Adolf Hitler had effectively become the dictator of Germany. All non-Nazi parties, organizations, and labour unions had ceased to exist. The reciprocal ideologies of pan-Germanic expansionism and anti-Semitism had taken root. Members of “non-Aryan” (non-white and Jewish) races were perceived and portrayed as inferior and degenerate. Nazi sports imagery served to promote the myth of Aryan racial superiority. So-called Aryan facial features—blonde hair and blue eyes—were accentuated in posters and journal illustrations. In April 1933 the Nazis’ sports office ordered all public athletic organizations to implement an “Aryans-only” policy. The policy sparked global outrage: just two years earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin, and now Olympic organizers in the United States and Europe were considering pulling out of the Berlin Olympics altogether.
