Hitler’s Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

06/27/24 • 35 min

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In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. When Hitler later came to power, and prepared to stage the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Thompson’s warning about the man she’d met would frame the central debate over the games: Should we go?

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Revisionist History - Hitler’s Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

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