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Germany."
Afterwards, Owens and his coach, Larry Snyder on arrival in London complained that they felt like
'trained seals'. They were subjected to a barrage of 'fraudulent publicity offers', so much so that they
refused further engagements. Time proved Larry Snyder and Jesse Owens right. None of the offers
came to anything but big name promoters like Eddy Cantor had received a great deal of favorable
publicity.
Back home in the United States, Jesse Owens was treated like a freak and an animal. "Before curious
crowds he raced horses (and won). He ran against cars, trucks, dogs, and baseball players with a head
start." - Norman Katkov. Jesse Owens Revisited. The World of Sport, p.289
His was a thirties America that had seen 26 lynchings - all Negroes; an America where Negroes had
to use separate public toilets and public transport; went to all-black schools, and couldn't mix with
white people in restaurants, cinemas, hotels, stadiums, etc. Hitler's Germany and the German people
must have seemed very welcoming by contrast.
FOR THE RECORD
Hitler's Germany won a total of 101 medals (41 gold) and 223 points. Their only credible rival was
the United States, which though three times bigger in population won 40% fewer, medals and points.
(25 gold medals - 4 to Jesse Owens - and just 132 points). The USA's size and its reliance on colored
athletes did little to reduce its humiliation, which in fact justified Hitler's claim to the potential of
Aryan superiority.
Hitler's Germany (population 80 millions) won more gold medals than the United States, Great
Britain, India, Canada, Argentina, France, and Norway together; a combined population of 1,160
millions: 14 times bigger than Germany's. If this is humiliation, perhaps we could do with a dash of it
ourselves.
SUMMER OLYMPICS GOLD SILVER BRONZE POINTS
HITLER'S GERMANY 33 26 30 181
UNITED STATES 24 20 12 124
FASCIST ITALY 8 9 5 47
GREAT BRITAIN 4 7 23 29
OLYMPIC ART POINTS: GERMANY (27) ITALY (11) BRITAIN (0) U.S.A. (2)
THE WINTER OLYMPICS: GERMANY (15) BRITAIN (6) U.S.A. (6)
CHAPTER.8
PEACE GETS THE NELSON'S EYE
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