Jesse Owens urban legend

1936 "Adolf Hitler walked out of the 1936 Summer Olympics stadium in Berlin, Germany after African-American athlete Jesse Owens won gold in the 200 metre race. Owens’s four gold medals were an eloquent refutation of Hitler’s theory of the inferiority of the black races."

So says the story, repeated in many places. However, it isn’t so. Hitler wasn’t at the Olympics that day, and it was probably a story invented by journalists at the time ...

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