Part 1: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

The Last Archive

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The most famous athlete in 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous stories from those Games was the unexpected, heartwarming encounter Owens had with the German long jumper Luz Long. The friendship between the two athletes would serve as a symbol of how sports can overcome national antagonisms. We wonder: What really happened at the long jump pit that day?

This is part one of a two-part crossover from Revisionist History’s ‘Hitler’s Olympics’ series. To listen to the whole series, head over to the Revisionist History show page.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. Hey last archive
0:19.6	archive listeners, it's Ben here and I want to share a story I made with the show Revisionist history that I think belongs in the last archive too because it's about history democracy and a question of truth.
0:32.0	In 1936 the Olympic Games and a question of truth.
0:33.0	In 1936, the Olympic Games were hosted by Nazi Germany.
0:37.0	The modern Olympic movement was at a low ebb.
0:40.0	And without the 36 games, there's a good chance that we wouldn't have the Olympics we have now.
0:45.0	But participating in games held in Nazi Germany raised a whole lot of ethical and political
0:50.2	questions.
0:51.6	We tend to think of Nazism as a geographically bounded thing, something people in
0:56.0	Germany in the 1930s dealt with. But even just a few years after Hitler's rise, before
1:01.8	the start of the Second World War, the Nazi Olympics
1:04.5	forced countries around the world to make a decision about whether or not they were going
1:09.2	to take a stand against Nazism.
1:11.5	In the US, there was a boycott movement. It failed, but the political
1:15.7	tensions around the games were fertile ground for myths. Myths that tended to
1:20.9	justify the choice to go to Nazi Germany.
1:24.0	In this episode, we look at probably the most influential of those myths.
1:29.0	A tale about Jesse Owens.
1:32.0	This episode in the next are two of a series. about Jesse Owens.
1:32.9	This episode in the next are two of a series that Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell
1:37.3	and I worked on together.
1:39.4	It's called Hitler's Olympics.
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