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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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How and why was the Holocaust possible?