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...problem to face if we're out there alone, swaying in the wind," he argued. "If we are the only nation not to appear in the Games, what good would this do?" Asked about the 1936 Olympics, which had been cited as a propaganda triumph for Adolf Hitler that Soviet leaders are now seeking to emulate, Kane objected to such "rewritten history" and contended: "Jesse Owen destroyed the myth of Aryan supremacy in 1936. It was a propaganda victory for our wonderful black athletes in the United States...
...city seems less a historical place than a state of mind. Psychoanalysis was born there, as well as atonal music, several schools of urban planning and modern Zionism. Vienna also spawned the brand of hooligan anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter the world. In Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Historian Carl E. Schorske gives the city back...
That sentiment about the Olympics has not always held true. In Berlin in 1936, Hitler turned the Games into a goose-stepping showcase of Nazi propaganada. World Wars I and II snuffed out the 1916, 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. The 1972 Munich Games were shattered by an Arab terrorist attack on the Israeli team that left eleven Israeli athletes dead. Past Games have also been boycotted: in 1956, for example, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics as a protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. And in 1976, 28 African nations abandoned the Montreal Games...
...Hermann Goering. Hermann Goering said that. He was the man behind Hitler. They say he pulled the strings. And you know, he was a junkie. And he was a fat pig, too. The man behind Hitler was a heroin junkie. He probably said things like that so many times, in all the papers, in all the movies, that people probably went crazy and started eating nuts and bolts." He looks coldly at the empty King of Beers, in which he has drowned his last cigarette. He looks around him. It is late, and the beer is all gone...
...gray, colorless mediocrity." In the early 1930s, his letters show, Trotsky believed he would soon be restored to power in Moscow. Trotsky's secretary in the years of exile, Frenchman Jean van Heijenoort, who catalogued the letters at Harvard, told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin that only Hitler's rise and the destruction of the German Communist Party in 1933 shattered Trotsky's hopes...