- Headline
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Olympics Protest Planned
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, November 5, 1935
- Historical Event
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Amateur Athletic Union Says “Yes” to Berlin Olympics
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 3
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- A nationwide drive against holding the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany, due to the alleged discrimination of the Nazi government against the Semitic race, reached Oklahoma City Monday when about 150 protest petitions were circulated.
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Sandy K.
- Location of Research
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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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