Meet the Tree: Why Jesse Owens Really Brought Hitler's Olympic Gift Home
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Adolf Hitler gave the legendary runner a mysterious gift: four potted oak tree saplings — one for each of the four gold medals that Owens won, while surrounded by Nazis, in one of the greatest performances in the history of sports. Almost a century later, correspondent David Fleming examines what Owens decided to do with his so-called Hitler Oaks... and why that decision remains an enduring act of American defiance. Plus: tree people, myth-busting, redlining and witch-doctor science.
This episode originally aired August 6th, 2024.
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| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
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| 1:02.9 | Yeah. Network. I'm a plant guy. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm a plant guy. |
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| 1:22.6 | You're welcome. Actually, I thought that's why I was here to help you with your limelight hydrangeas, |
| 1:28.7 | which mine are really world-class. |
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| 1:41.5 | And so as the lawn owner, as a guy with his own set of shrubbery, |
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