Revisionist History
Revisionist History
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Hitler’s Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado
35 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2024 at 4:30 am.
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In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. When Hitler later came to power, and prepared to stage the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Thompson’s warning about the man she’d met would frame the central debate over the games: Should we go? 

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