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Old 07-25-2013, 10:03 AM   #28
sevenarms
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
That's the problem, it wasn't a global world back then, how much did people know about Hitler and his government in 1936. Hitler was still 3 years from launching his war. It was still nearly a decade before people learned about the true final solution.

Plus his aryan uber-man and antisemitism was agreed to by a lot of the nations of the world at the time.
Jesse Owens won 4 golds at the Berlin Olympics. Athletes like him were a huge slap to the face of so-called Aryan supremacy.
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