Eighty years after Jesse Owens won four medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, his daughter says Germany’s Nazi leader Adolf Hitler refused to shake her father’s hand. The controversial Berlin Olympics opened on Aug. 1, 1936, to much fanfare with Hitler hoping to showcase the best of the Aryan race with the hosts planning […]
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