![]() ![]() ![]() In response, a number of countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France lobbied for the Games to be relocated or boycotted entirely. The official Nazi publication, the Völkischer Beobachter, wrote that Jews and Black people should not even be allowed to compete. The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were, in Hitler’s eyes, a chance to show the world that the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryan race was supreme to all others. ![]() Jesse Owens’ shoes may have been the only thing that stopped Mack Robinson’s greatest athletic achievement from being even greater.īut Robinson showed Hitler that greatness has nothing to do with the color of a person’s skin, and then showed America that athletic talent has nothing to do with a person’s ability to be great. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Delano RobinsonĪdolf Hitler’s hatred of Jews and Black people meant Mack Robinson’s greatest athletic achievement almost never happened. Robinson, the older brother of American baseball star Jackie Robinson, won the silver in the 200m event, finishing second to Jesse Owens. American Olympic runner Mack Robinson training at the summer games in Berlin. ![]()
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