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Hitler's Olympics

Introducing... Hitler's Olympics

Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics

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Hitler's Olympics

Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.

• 36 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.

• 32 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 3: Mustache to Mustache

The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?

• 35 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.

• 41 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 5: The Amateur鈥檚 Hour

A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.

• 37 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

What really happened at the long jump pit that day between Jesse Owens and Luz Long?

• 38 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

The hidden life of one of America鈥檚 iconic sports heroes, Jesse Owens.

• 44 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 8: 鈥淰ater, It is to be Fayetteville鈥�

The fight over the games provided Americans a chance to study Nazi Germany.

• 34 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?

• 45 mins

Saigon, 1965

In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.

• 41 mins