In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too.
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08/15/24 • 33 min
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Revisionist History - Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”
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Bushkin. Yeah. Yeah, now's about you're the best thing to think about the guy Krieger who goes from Germany to Arkansas. Yes, he does, to Fayetteville. Yes, I'm talking to a professor at Yale Law School, James Q. Whitman, about an all but forgotten figure named Heinrich Krieger. In the early nineteen thirties. Krieger was a student in Dusseldorf, an intellectual who set out for a semester abroad. We have no pictures of him, so we'll have to use o
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