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Speaker 1: One of my strongest childhood memories was the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: six Olympics in Montreal, my homeland's first Olympic Games. I

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Speaker 1: was a kid. My family didn't have a television, but

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Speaker 1: we rented one just for the occasion. Two rabbit ears

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Speaker 1: on top of a grainy black and white set. We

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Speaker 1: put the TV in the fireplace because there was no

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Speaker 1: other place for it, and I watched everything. The Romanian

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Speaker 1: Nadya Komenich bewitching the world in gymnastics, my running hero

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Speaker 1: John Walker powering away around the final curve to win

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Speaker 1: the men's fifteen hundred meters. I still get nervous thinking

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Speaker 1: about that race, and the women's ford by one hundred

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Speaker 1: freestyle relay, maybe the greatest swimming race ever. I fell

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Speaker 1: in love with the Olympics that summer, and these Olympic

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Speaker 1: that I love and that so many millions of people

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Speaker 1: around the world love might not exist if the Games

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Speaker 1: had not been held in nineteen thirty six in Adolf

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Speaker 1: Hitler's Germany. The modern Olympics started in eighteen ninety six,

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Speaker 1: and if you've gone to any of those early games,

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Speaker 1: you would think you were at some kind of side show.

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Speaker 1: It was the Nazis who gave us the Olympics we

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Speaker 1: have today. They were really really good at putting on

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Speaker 1: a big show. Hitler one of the games to be

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Speaker 1: a showcase of Aryan supremacy, to rally the German people,

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Speaker 1: to give legitimacy to the band of thugs he had

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Speaker 1: gathered around him, and to make the case that Germany

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Speaker 1: was a true world power. And the United States went

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Speaker 1: along with all of it. Why, that's what the new

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Speaker 1: season of Revisionist History is all about. Hitler's Olympics. Over

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Speaker 1: nine episodes, my colleague Ben that Haffrey and I will

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Speaker 1: tell the story of the games, behind the games, not

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Speaker 1: who won what, not how a stirring come from behind

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Speaker 1: burst of effort led to victory. Instead, we're exploring the

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Speaker 1: furious machinations leading up to the Olympics and the genuinely

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Speaker 1: difficult moral questions that surrounded the Berlin Games. And along

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Speaker 1: the way we're going to introduce you to an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: cast of characters. There's Charles Cheryl, diplomat, athlete, internationalist, man

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Speaker 1: of parts, the ranking American member of the International Olympic Committee.

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Speaker 1: I have led the hapless life of anybody you ever

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Speaker 1: met in your life. We'll spend time with Avery Brundage,

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Speaker 1: champion athlete, self made millionaire, a man who saw in

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Speaker 1: the thirty six Games a chance to expel his personal

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Speaker 1: demons and seize control of the entire Olympic movement, and

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Speaker 1: the irony of it is. The more important the Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games become, the more problems we have. An incredibly clear

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Speaker 1: eyed American reporter named Dorothy Thompson. I think that Hitler

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Speaker 1: is appreciable Nera shooting us, and therefore I think we're

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Speaker 1: appuciably Nera requlying. Then there's Jesse Owens, winner of four

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Speaker 1: gold medals, the African American star of the nineteen thirty

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Speaker 1: six Games. That was the beginning to the end of

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Speaker 1: a very long dream. I'm sure you've heard of Jesse Owens.

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Speaker 1: But Ben is going to tell you a story about

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Speaker 1: Owens that I guarantee you have not heard. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention side trips to a small town in Alabama, a

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Speaker 1: seminar on a crucial but all but forgotten Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: case called Giles v. Harris O, and a lesson from

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Speaker 1: a legendary triple jumper. He didn't have a jiggle, We

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Speaker 1: didn't have a change. No, he didn't have a jiggle

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Speaker 1: or a gideayo. Yeah. Heroes and villains, the clear eyed, in,

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Speaker 1: the deluded, the forgotten, and the misunderstood, all of them

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Speaker 1: going to Hitler's Olympics. You will never see the games

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