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How did that work out for the Nazis? Serious question; I have no idea.


Not very well...

Considering Jesse Owens threw SERIOUS doubt on the Nazi precept of racial superiority.

Certain American athletes also chased Hitler from the Stadium once the Track and Field events started, and Hitler was informed by the IOC that he must receive ALL winners... or none.

Hitler chose to receive none.

After the first day... seeing how things were going... he no longer attended the stadium.


In Jesse's autobiography he said that Hitler didn't snub him, but that Roosevelt did. We worth googling.


I just made a todo for myself: "investigate possible moral equivalence between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler". You'll understand if it takes me awhile to get to that one.


Do you view the comment you replied to as suggesting that moral equivalence?


Yep.


I think you may have read too much into it.





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