January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

good friends over the years.Another German sports figure during the time
of Hitler's domination of German politics was an olympic long jumper who
reportedly gave Jesse Owens some tips on jumping during warm ups for their
event. Tips that may have helped Owens win the gold medal in the event. The
German, who's name escapes me, I believe got the bronze medal in the event for
third place in those 1932 olympics that were held in Germany. Not a bad showing
but I am sure Hitler was not happy with his supposeed German superman losing to
an American, a black American at that!|
|2/4/05 10:09:48
AM|Kent|NonMuffinville||nothemuffinman@nonmuffinville.com||||10|Or were those
German olympic games held in 1936? I would have to look that up. I do think
that the later date is when they took place.|
|2/4/05 10:54:38 AM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Kent-1936 is the right date.|
|2/4/05 12:11:35 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Yes, '36,
and yes, Jesse Owens kicked ass!|
|2/4/05 12:37:13 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Max Schmeling dead at 99... The wet-
nurse (thanks dictionary !) didn't strangle him. All jokes apart, rest in peace.
He was a champion and above all a kind-hearted person. Primo Carnera and him
were good friends and, if I remember correctly he helped Primo when the Italian
midget was in bad waters.|
|2/4/05 01:06:41 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Yes, Jesse
Owens kicked ass but the German jumper deserves credit for showing the true
meaning of sportsmanship and friendship by offering to help a competitor
regardless of race or nationality. They were just two long jumpers wanting to
compete against the best in the world, and they were not opposing forces of
Germany verses the rest of Europe and the United States.I think the tips
he gave Owens related to Owens' takeoff and they made Owens less likely to foul
on his takeoff. It was people like Schmeling and this other German
athlete who kept their humanity even as madness raged around them in their
country.I just saw a movie called Hotel Rwanda based on a true story of
genocide in that country in 1994. One tribe in the country in general has
slightly lighter skin and narrower noses and is taller and they are slaughtered
by the other tribe during a civil war.To an outside observer, they seem
like the same people who's similarities far outweigh their differences. But
those involved in the slaughter, those small differences are
everthing.It reminds me of the Nazi Germans who slaughtered Jews just
because they had a different religion and some different cultural practices. In
fact, to tell them apart from the rest of the population, the Jews were made to
wear insignias on their clothing to identify them as Jews. Otherwise, no one
would know they were Jews they were so much like other Germans!Some may
wonder why prominent atheletes such as Schemling and the olympic long jumper
didn't speak out against the atrocities. But it is possible that they and many
other German citizens didn't know about what was going on as the censorship of
the regime was total.|
|2/4/05 04:45:46 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Kent-Speaking out against
atrocities with Hitler around ? He would have send him to Auswchitz.Hitler
didn't like people who didn't agree with him. Schmeling likely was a very good
man but wasn't a hero. I have seen him in pictures together with Hitler after
his 1936 win over Louis. I'm sure he didn't agree with Hitler's ( and sadly
later even Mussolini's, even if in a much smaller measure) racial crap but he
just couldn't show his ostility too much. |
|2/4/05 05:47:58 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|The world as well as the German people
knew what was happening to the Jews, but it was easier to ignore their plight
rather than acknowledge the massacre and actually do something about
it.Sounds familiar, doesn't it. Before we go getting moralistic
critizing others for not acting earlier against the atrocities on the Jews, we
should look at modern humanity.Many of the moralistic left were prepared