The German head of state had done everything in his power to leave a taste of Nazi propaganda in the mouths of all the competing nations at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens, the grandson of a slave, born in 1913 in segregated Alabama, however, left his own mark which would turn Adolf Hitler`s theory of racial supremacy on its head.
Image: Owens signs autographs during the Berlin Olympics.
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