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I've listened, here is part two of my look at Jesse Owens' famous long jump in the 1936 Nazi Olympic Games. If you missed part one, maybe give that a listen first.

It should be in your feed.

To hear the rest of our nine-part revisionist history series on the 1936 Olympics,

head over to revisionist history's show page and look for the episodes titled Hitler's Olympics.

Here's the episode.

On a warm day in August 1951,

a helicopter appeared in the sky above the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

75,000 people had gathered there to watch a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game. The crowd looked up.

The chopper circled three times and landed on the field.

The loudspeaker amounts are called out.

Attention, attention. A black man in a white suit stepped out onto the red

cinder track. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest runner in the world returns to Berlin. Jesse Owens was back in Germany to take a victory lab.

I had many thoughts as I made the symbolic run of victory around the same Red Center track that I'd run so many years before.

As I passed each section, there was a bridge to the past.

The Second World War had ended only six years earlier, and Germany, along with the rest of the world, was still reckoning with it all.

Whatever was left of the Nazi leadership had been grilled at the Nuremberg trials.

Berlin was rebuilding after Allied bombing Canada. had been grilled at the Nuremberg trials.

Berlin was rebuilding after Allied bombing campaigns.

About 80% of the city center had been flattened.

Yet the stadium the Nazis had built for the Olympics was still standing.

And that day at the Globetrotters game,

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