- Headline
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Olympic Games May Not Be Held in Germany Owing to Jew Status
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, April 18, 1933
- Historical Event
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Amateur Athletic Union Says “Yes” to Berlin Olympics
This database includes 2,208 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 7
- Author/Byline
- UP
- Article Text
- BALTIMORE, Md., Apr. 17.—(UP)—Although the 1936 Olympic games are scheduled to be held In Germany, Avery Brlndage[sic], president of the American Olympic committee, today expressed the purely personal belief that they will not be held "in any country where there will be Interference with the fundamental olympic theory of equality of all races."
Brundage expressed this unofficial opinion In a letter to K. A. Miller, managing editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, in response to a telegram from Miller asking his personal reactions to steps reported In Germany that would prevent participation of Jews in international competition.
He continued, "the Olympic protocol provides that there shall be no restriction of competition because of class, color or creed. The matter no doubt will be taken up by the American Olympic committee." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amy M.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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Bibliography
Bachrach, Susan D. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
Committee on Fair Play in Sports. Preserve the Olympic Ideal: A Statement of the Case Against American Participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin. New York: The Committee, 1935.
Large, David Clay. Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. “The Olympic Games: Germany Triumphant.” In Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945, pp. 63-85. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi Olympics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Rubien, Frederick W., ed. Report of the American Olympic Committee: Games of the XIth Olympiad, Berlin, Germany, August 1-16, 1936: IVth Olympic Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 6-16, 1936. New York: American Olympic Committee, 1936.
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