In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I, the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. That boxer was Howell King. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where legendary runner Jesse Owens registered what many called a “blow to the Nazi ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics is a prominent example. After the 1932 edition in the home ground (Los Angeles), American swimmers had huge hopes to continue the momentum to the German capital.

Our thoughts are with her family as well as with all those she touched during her time with us.” After making the 1936 Olympic team at swimming trials, Critchell, then 15, and other athletes were told ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

Radios across the world were tuned in on August 14, 1936 when nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold at Hitler's Olympics. Listen to the original radio broadcast ...

We were supplied, however, with very fine U. S. Naval Academy coats (greatcoats) with a small Olympic shield on the breast pocket. January 11.— Hamburg at 6 P. M. after sailing up the Elbe ...

Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...

Malcolm Gladwell isn’t most people. Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics on the latest season of his podcast series “Revisionist History.” ...