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Aug 2024
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Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is...

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In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too. 

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