Athletes Jesse Owens of the United States (right) and Lutz Long of Germany at the Olympic stadium. [LCID: 43338]
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The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: African American Voices and "Jim Crow" America

After the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933, the United States and other western democracies began to question the morality of supporting the Olympic Games hosted by the regime. For African Americans, this decision had an added dimension. They already faced racism at home and now they had to decide whether to represent the United States in Germany, a country dominated by a racist dictatorship.

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Women survivors huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 31450b]

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Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]

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