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Unsportsmanlike Conduct at Olympics

Adolf Hitler | 1936
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Adolf Hitler  - 1936
While trumpeting Aryan supremacy at the Berlin Games, the Nazi dictator summoned German gold medalists Tilly Fleischer and Hans Woellke to his box to congratulate them, but he left the stadium after African-American Cornelius Johnson, a supposed "non-human" in the eyes of Hitler, won the high jump. More famously, Jesse Owens later won four track and field golds in another embarrassment for the preening Nazis.
Photographed by: AP
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