Jesse Owens (and other US black athletes) experienced as much if not more racisim at home that in Germany. President Roosevelt did not receive or contact Jesse Owens, who later commented: “Hitler didn't snub me-it was our president who snubbed me… The president didn't even send me a telegram.”

@yoloswaggins7121

11 ай бұрын

Probably more. The Nazis hated black people but the average German didn't have much exposure to black people and so they didn't have the same hatred that the Nazis or racist Americans did. There was no segregation in Germany for example, so many black American athletes were very happy that they didn't have to worry about getting served or not.

@ProffyChaos

11 ай бұрын

It is interesting you say this because I know during WW2 African American GIs based in the UK commented on the freedom they experienced when compared to the US. There was racism in the UK but it was not legislated. I think racism became worse in the UK after WW2 when the arrival of Caribbean and Asian migrants became a political issue that could be weaponised due to concerns around employment and "culture". I think most people think this is ridiculous now but then you look at things like Brexit and perhaps our xenophobia has simply changed focus.

@kujjitafari8509

11 ай бұрын

Yeah because America was the birth of white supremacy.

@gestaposantaclaus

11 ай бұрын

Only because Hitler’s hand was forced in that regard. That world wasn’t watching the US, it was watching Germany. I wonder how those Romani were doing in their concentration camp. Sure seems like they were….snubbed to me.

@gestaposantaclaus

11 ай бұрын

@@yoloswaggins7121the Nazis literally had propaganda depicted black jazz musicians as fucking monkeys. With “Degenerate Music” written underneath.

I knew a woman, here in the states, that was old enough to remember the '36 Olympics. She was thirty when they happened, then in '37 she and her husband drove out to Lakehurst to see the Hindenburg come in. They witnessed the explosion and mayhem afterwards, I enjoyed hearing about the past from someone who saw the dawn of "fads" like the automobile and aviation.

@leonardodalongisland

11 ай бұрын

Your friends surely witnessed some amazing history; Hitler getting his butt kicked twice!!!

@Indy_Bendy

10 ай бұрын

Yeah sure

@jorgeml8112

10 ай бұрын

@@leonardodalongislandclassic pro america pro british who really thinks that allies were the good guys, you've consumed too much propaganda fool

@kleatise52

10 ай бұрын

@@Indy_Bendyunbelievable, somebody knew an old person.

@Thebatcavepetfriendlybakery

10 ай бұрын

​@@Indy_Bendyi hope whatever youre going through gets better

The Korean forced to compete for Japan but still had his own moments like using his birth name in the 1936 games seems like a truly underrated story

@MariU9

8 ай бұрын

I hope someone makes a movie about him some day. His story deserves to be told.

@arnowisp6244

4 ай бұрын

​@@MariU9 Koreans do get moments in History. Like that one guy who got forced to fight for the Russians than the Germans and ended up in Normandy beach.

@tuomorautiainen9642

3 ай бұрын

@@MariU9Please watch "My Way" 2011 tells story about Korean marathon runner Kim Jun-shik who was forced to fight in Japanese military, then captures by russians and forced to fight for russians, then escaped and germany military found him and ended up to fight allies on normandy beach. amazing true story!

@tuomorautiainen9642

3 ай бұрын

@@arnowisp6244Kim Jun-shik was his name and there is movie about him "My Way" 2011, recommended highly!

Right now in America some are trying to keep this history from being taught.

@sapphirejade5029

8 ай бұрын

And I hate it. If you don’t teach the future generations what took place, history WILL repeat itself TENFOLD. I'm upset that this is happening along with the controversial book banning. It's SO RIDICULOUS.

Jesse Owens is so important to WW2 history. He was the actual Captain America inspiration. Demonstrated he was just on another level, and stood for something more than himself. Something he didnt even get to truly know himself.

Another fine note to point out. If not for the games being canceled in ‘40 and ‘44, Mack Robinson very well could have had his younger brother long jumping alongside him. Instead, we are left with his brother breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

@surfingbrrrd

7 ай бұрын

Jeez, their parents definitely passed on some strong athletic genes in their kids 😱

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Why were they cancelled?

@imaginesomethingedgy

5 ай бұрын

​@justinsmith4562 pretty sure at the time everyone was killing each other.

Jesse owens really made history here.

@curtisthomas2670

11 ай бұрын

But sadly had to go around to the service entrance to attend an event held in his honor in his home country

@misledprops

11 ай бұрын

Owens told history to hold his beer (and probably his cigarette haha).

@misledprops

11 ай бұрын

@@curtisthomas2670man the past was the worst

@inalostaraseri3947

11 ай бұрын

I imagine that was either a very quite ride home with hitler, or it reaaalllly wasn't. "DAS JESSSSSSE" lol

@overdoseproductions9011

11 ай бұрын

He sure did and his country disrespected him.

This was very well put together! The 1936 Olympics were a very important and substantial precursor to WW2. Its crazy when you think about it.

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

As crazy as 2014 Olympics, the year russians doped the hardest and invaded Ukraine... Not as crazy about World Cup 2018 in the middle of the war.

@3goats1coat

11 ай бұрын

Yes. It showed everyone's true colors.. Hitler shook hands with Jesse Owens, Roosevelt didn't. Almost a century later we're still flogging German racism with glee, meanwhile the US is and always has been the one.

@maggiemae7539

10 ай бұрын

There is nothing important about the Olympics. If you look into their origins you would be disgusted

An autobiography written by Helen Stephens, who was a member of the 1936 USA Olympic Team, stated that when the athletes were in Berlin they were served breakfasts of just pieces of fruit. The USA Olympic Staff complained about the lack of food and the breakfast menu was changed to bacon and eggs.

@Loralanthalas

11 ай бұрын

So one unbalanced meal to another

@ashb7846

10 ай бұрын

@@LoralanthalasI’m no athlete, but based on how it’s talked about on every health thing everywhere protein is important for that type of performance and unless they were being served pounds of fruit, eggs and bacon were probably a better way to start their day while fruit might have been better later in the afternoon as a boost or something.

@jennaywilliams7664

10 ай бұрын

@@ashb7846 I want all 3 together!

@surfingbrrrd

7 ай бұрын

@@ashb7846100%. Especially because fruit is high in sugar and sugar crashes would definitely be a disadvantage. To top it all off, a sugar crash hits around 4 hours after eating. So if it was for breakfast, I guarantee quite a few athletes crashed right before competing

It’s always weird when I find a channel where Simon is all serious and doesn’t interject to go on a tangent every 2 minutes.

@LisaBowers

10 ай бұрын

Am I right, Peter?!

@HistoryGaming1001

9 ай бұрын

@@LisaBowersalso what happened in 1936 was an unfortunate Australian man picked up a cone snail to show to his friends. And what he did he took his knife and started to scrape the barnacles on the shell. He was stung in the hand by the cone snail and he briefly slumped down and started going into shock. He then fell into a coma and he was dead in 3 hours. At autopsy they found the cone snail’s tiny harpoon no bigger than an eyelash loaded with deadly neurotoxic venom.

@Fetidaf

9 ай бұрын

@@HistoryGaming1001… cool?

@HistoryGaming1001

9 ай бұрын

@@Fetidaf why are you asking that

@Fetidaf

9 ай бұрын

@@HistoryGaming1001 because I’m not sure why you said all that

Jesse Owens won his events wearing shoes given to him by Adolf Dassler of the family owned Geda shoe manufacturing company. The company was later split into two after a family dispute and Adolf named his half by combining the letters of his nickname with the first 3 letters of his surname: Adi + Das = Adidas. His brother Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler chose a different way to name his half and called it Puma. When American soldiers found out the Geda company had given shoes to Owens it was spared.

@overdoseproductions9011

11 ай бұрын

I learned this from Simon in his video lol

@stelladonaconfredobutler9459

11 ай бұрын

what was spared?

@Exgrmbl

11 ай бұрын

@@stelladonaconfredobutler9459 Sounds like a made up story at face value. If you listen to Jesse Owens pov from back in the day it is very clear that american society on a whole didn't give much of a f*** about black people.

@owenshebbeare2999

11 ай бұрын

Hmmm...US soldiers often incurred the ire of the British by trying to enforce their primitive, Democrat, segregation in places such as British pubs. The average American certainky wasn't in favour of racial mixing at that time.

@lordtrigon1733

11 ай бұрын

Spared? Were they planning to open fire on the shoemakers?

“Politics have no place in sports.” * LAUGHS IN AMERICAN AND SOVIET *

@richardsalazar4817

11 ай бұрын

Laughs in French and Chinese, Next to you

@rubeng3

10 ай бұрын

Laughs in South African, next to the guy above me

@gluedtothemouse

10 ай бұрын

You did not laugh enough, comrade. Thirty years in the gulag!

@Ok.ok.

5 ай бұрын

Laughs in Canada and Soviet Russia’s annual hockey games next to gulag guy just enough to not go to gulag

@John-PaulHunt-pv6ol

18 күн бұрын

As do I as well with corporate sponsors being the new nazis and commies infecting the Olympic games.

I don't care about the Olympics, and I don't care about sports -- but I know Jesse Owens' story. Abaolute legend. The risk he and others took just to make Hitler look like a fool 👏👏👏 (despite facing intense racism at home).

@bernardedwards8461

11 ай бұрын

He didn't take any risk and didn't make Hitler look a fool, neither did he refuse to shake Hitler's hand. You've been brainwashed!

@nationalsocialist-ek4vx

8 ай бұрын

hitler was kind to him

@AbuilyasalAryanee

6 ай бұрын

Look like a fool? Lol how?

@john_doe_smith

6 ай бұрын

Didn’t you hear the part where the narrator said that Germany dominated the Olímpics by winning more medals than anyone else? I am not defending Hitler just stating a fact.

Of all the documentaries I've seen on the Nazi regime that mentioned the olympics, this is the only one to ever tell me what you did. I had never thought about Koreans competing in defiance of the Japanese, for example. Extremely informative.

Those black athletes may have upset Hitler’s ideas about race, but they faced even worse when they got back to the US.

@josephwilliams7995

11 ай бұрын

Oh please

@baalzeebub4230

11 ай бұрын

Really? Tell me, what’s worse than having your family ripped apart, the women and children sent to the ovens and the men forced to work until they starved to death? I await your reply with bated breath. Edit: stupid spell check repairs

@pucky8231

11 ай бұрын

@@josephwilliams7995 no, for real

@kingMT514

10 ай бұрын

@@josephwilliams7995oh please my ass. You know it’s true

@jamesdellaneve9005

10 ай бұрын

Yes. But we once again (after freeing the slaves from the Democrats) had to defeat the Democrat’s Jim Crow laws with Civil Rights legislation. Now, we need to free them once again from the Democrats urban government run schools. Is there a trend here?

The Olympics events that were affected by things like this are quite interesting to discuss...I would really love to see a Biographics episode or something about the 1972 Munich Olympics or even the boycotted 1984 LA Olympics due to the Afghanistan War by USSR

@wlg1223

9 ай бұрын

The 1984 boycott was retaliation for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic boycott which was due to the USSR war in Afghanistan.

These things remind me that when we think prior generations were racist and we aren't like that now, we are wrong. People now will turn a blind eye to things now if it suits them and there were people back then who equally thought racism was unacceptable.

@yoloswaggins7121

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a "not my problem attitude." Plenty of Americans weren't racist and were against Jim Crow but at the end of the day, they weren't willing to actually do anything about it.

@Loralanthalas

11 ай бұрын

Dude. Learn a little history. It used to be Irish and Italians who were too ficking stupid and dirty to get anything other then manual labor jobs. Too stupid to supervise. That was literally 1904. The tribalism just moves. Once we accept the next group: we'll find another to ostracize. That's literally what all of our religions teach: you either accept the one true God of any particular denomination or you will never be close to God in their eyes. It's all fucking tribalism and we tach it to our kids. All our kids.

@dodixaber8968

11 ай бұрын

@@yoloswaggins7121 the thing is back then people did get rounded up for speaking against it, especially if the voice come from the minorities trying to defend their right.

@yoloswaggins7121

11 ай бұрын

@@dodixaber8968 Exactly. Not my problem!

My only criticism of this video is that it was too short; I honestly can’t envision an outlet like The History Channel producing something as interesting and compelling and historically significant as this; anyways carry on boys; you guys are doing great work; maybe next time mention Louis zamperini as well; cheers!

@pakde8002

11 ай бұрын

There's definitely a megaprojects video to be made about how Germany prepared infrastructure for the Olympics.

@mike04574

11 ай бұрын

They have done many, long time ago

@mason7642

10 ай бұрын

there is a book about zamperini that goes into a lot of depth in his endeavors and in the olympics as a whole, but the name alludes me.

@benamisai-kham5892

10 ай бұрын

​@@mason7642we read this book in highschool it's how I remembered a lot of the info here! I also wish I remembered the name of the book 😅

@aroaris843

7 ай бұрын

@@benamisai-kham5892unbroken

Owens showed true sportsmanship. He never spoke ill of hitler, germany or germans.

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Why would he? He was treated well

When i was in high school, one of my teachers was a gold medal winner in the 1936 Olympics. His name was Archie Williams. He was with Jessie Owens. News paper reporters would often come to interview Mr. Williams. I remember him being asked what he thought about hitler not shaking hands with Jessie Owens, and he responded that hitler wouldn't shake his hand either. Nice guy. I don’t think he failed anyine in his class. i probably deserved to fail it, though

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Holy shit you must be old haha

I live in Iowa in the US and went to Coe College, William Shirer's Alma Mater. I've seen the documents first hand that he used to help write about the Games as well as his book the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He donated all of his materials to Coe after his passing, and working in the archives, it was a massive amount of original material that really highlighted everything mentioned here.

@Crimethoughtfull

11 ай бұрын

I read that book in high school (just b/c I was a WWII fan)---seeing the original documents must have been something! The book itself was amazing, but the source material?? Wow.

@flickcentergaming680

11 ай бұрын

I may have to look into that. Hello fellow Iowan!

It's always weird seeing pictures from those Olympics, so many places that are now integral part of everyday live in Berlin just purpose-built for the Olympics.

Back in 80-82 I played basketball on the varsity team in high school. Before my first year began, they gave me a list of questions to answer and I had no idea why. This was something I'd never given much thought about, but when I read it instantly I knew it was Jesse Owens.

Simon is my favorite user of the word "allegedly"

@CAP198462

11 ай бұрын

Simon owns it like Matt Easton owns “Context.”

@attilamagyar91

11 ай бұрын

You must use it in every single political/scandal/fraud video if you don't want to get sued.

@JCCyC

11 ай бұрын

Simon is ALLEGEDLY your favorite user of the word "allegedly".

One of the better videos of years I've ever seen. Very informative and well presented. Hell of a job!!

All your channels have become my new favorites!!! Huzzah!!!

Let's do interviews with people who we think might be poorly treated, in a different language and let them bring the translators. Brilliant.

Hitler was also absolutely tweaked out of his head the whole day too. He was getting injected with all types up uppers.

I'm glad that you mentioned that Hitler didn't intentionally shun Jessie Owens. In fact, in John Tolands biography of Hitler, he quotes Jessie Owens as having said that Hitler was very nice and polite to him (I'm sorry I can't find the exact citation). I DON'T bring this up to say "hey, look he's not all that bad". I'm sure it was all an act. Owens comment might also have been a reflection of prominent black Americans not wanting to rock the boat at the time. But I am making the point that there are many myths and legends in history that are simply not true. We often wish history had some kind of poetic justice or irony, so we cling to these types of myths.

@stephw1702

3 ай бұрын

In the documentary "Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin", Owens talked about how he wasn't slighted. It was another US athlete who did not recieve a handshake after the first day, later being told because of a schedule conflict. When the Olympic Committee said all athletes needed to be congratulated or none, the latter was chosen.

@youtohaha

2 ай бұрын

I love how you ignore the whole part where Hitler didnt want any black or jew to even compete but oh he didnt shun him so must not be that bad of a person.

Super thrilled to learn about the stories of other defiant athletes ❤

- Aryans are superior - *Loses the Olympics* - OH YEAH? WELL...BET WE'RE SUPERIOR AT WAR! - *loses war* - REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - *ragequits in bunker*

@jiggy7108

11 ай бұрын

They did win the Olympics. They got 38 Golds (2nd best was USA with 24) and 101 total Medals (2nd best was USA with 57). Also other countries with "Aryan" populations did well (Finland: 8 Golds, 20 total medals; Sweden: 6 Golds, 21 total medals; Netherlands: 6 Golds, 17 total medals; Austria: 5 Golds, 17 total medals)

@jakefaulkner8381

11 ай бұрын

@@jiggy7108 Do you think he understood the joke, everyone?

@diego1590

11 ай бұрын

​@@jakefaulkner8381but they won the olimpics, to start your joke by saying something thats false is already killing it.

@jakefaulkner8381

11 ай бұрын

@@diego1590 I don't think he got the joke

@bnmbg731

10 ай бұрын

Yea well all those scientific and cultural advancements kind of make up for it

Tokyo had to wait until the 1960s before they got their Olympics, due to post war rebuilding.

@johnnyearp52

10 ай бұрын

Maybe the USA felt guilty for dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan.

Jesse Owens saw hate and went, "aight bet" then kicked ass. #hero

That was a really good one. Thanks, Simon.🎉🎉

Jesse Owens was cheered by German audiences during Olympics.

Imagine a country hosting the Olympics and then invading an Eastern European country a few years later...

@frocwin

10 ай бұрын

I mean, didn't it just happen with Russia and Ukraine?

@notKyoshi

9 ай бұрын

Before hosting and then again after and then a WC and then continuing full force and getting fucked*

It pains me to note, that no one in the comments has cited that the Nazis used hatred and division to take power and yet that is *exactly* what has been happening in increasing amounts in the world today. I suppose even those who enjoy history, still don't learn from it and therefor are doomed to repeat it *sigh*

@willjapheth23789

10 ай бұрын

It's literally the go to method of political consolidation. It's really easy to fall into.

@twinboeing

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is exactly like nazi Germany 2.0. Victims of the nazi persecution and extermination wouldn't last a day seeing our gendered bathroom segregation horrors. History will weep for 21st century Americans :(

Dont forget, that out of all only Soviet Union had balls to boycott those olympic. US didnt care about black and jewish people. So is all other. But now we see USSR as "bad"....

@johnnyearp52

10 ай бұрын

Nothing is all bad obviously.

Great content as always, learned a lot, thanks man 👏🏻

Simon in this program and some of his other more 'produced' shows is so much more frantic than in the Casual Criminalist

8 years later this event supposedly helped Warsaw Uprising fighters. The Pole who negociated the capitulation, Bór-Komorowski, was part of the Polish delegation during these Games and one of the Nazis remembered him. Supposedly that's why the Warsaw fighters were treated as prisoners of war. I'm not sure it's true but sounds cool.

Reminds me of the Beijing games in 2022. The IOC loves dictatorships. The CCP did the same thing: host the olympics while actively carrying out a genocide against its Uyghur population.

@jameskarg3240

11 ай бұрын

The IOC doeant approve dictstorships domestic abuses, what they like is their political effecientcy. The basic argument of democracy vs dictatorships: "Democracies are an irreconcilable mess, whereas at least Dictatorships keep their politics straight foreward, schedules effecient, and order maintained at ALL times" Or, even more classic, an Italian citizen playing devils advocate for Mussolinni: "Benito may be a brutal tyrant, but at least the trains run on-time" IOC doesnt like Dictstorships, per-sey. They like Order. Orderly countries mean they get their meetings over with that much faster. THEY certainly dont want to stay abroad longer than needed, time is money.

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

​@@jameskarg3240Nah, IOC is extremely corrupt. There's ZERO order in russia. None. Literally read of how poorly the Sochi Olympics were organized and how bad everything was built. They hosted them because the West decided to declare russians the "master race" now. Simple as that.

i actually have an artifact from that time in germany, my grandparents are german and they gave me a bunch of the decorative plates that have a blue painting on them, one of them is from the Munich Olympic games

I always love when Fact Boy hams up his Britishness.

Upon the death of Joan Langdon on 15 March 2022, Iris Cummings became the last surviving competitor of the 1936 Summer Olympics.

@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693

11 ай бұрын

What a shame lost an important part of history

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Never heard of either of them. Are you sure.

And then, 36 years later, Germany would host the Olympics again in 1972, and we all know what happened.

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

No, what happened?

@samuelstephen8147

5 ай бұрын

The Munich Massacre happened. Basically the Germany felt for the militarized games that this time they relaxed security allowing the Palestinian group Black September the capture the Israeli team. At the end of the ordeal, most of the terrorists and all of the team were dead. That’s just a basic summary@@justinsmith4562.

You will make a good rapper 😅 With that introduction, I thought you were dropping bars😅😂.

I'm Korean, and I've actually heard the story of the Korean marathon runner forced to compete for Japan.

@vic5015

11 ай бұрын

​​​@@badofias I said, my family is Korean abd I'm quite well aware of all if that. Thankfully someone in the US government was smart enough to exempt Koreans in America from the ww2 Japanese internment order.

@CIABACKWARDYAKUZA

10 ай бұрын

@@vic5015 then chinese occupation korea peninsula right =?? Then created communist nortkorean killing to southkoreansss..

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Thought they were the same country

I like how Simon usually says things in metric and only grudgingly translates to Freedom Units, but in this one he says "point six miles" when, being in Europe, the actual measurement was 1km.

@leonardodalongisland

11 ай бұрын

I think it's actually . 64 miles???

@31webseries

11 ай бұрын

Freedom units??

@tgbyhunjik

11 ай бұрын

​@@31webseriesAmericans like to call the british invented measurement system freedom units for some reason

@johnnyearp52

10 ай бұрын

​@@31webseries 😂

@johnnyearp52

9 ай бұрын

@@MatthewSmith-yd7vk Who uses Freedom units? I never heard of that before. (I live in the USA)

At 12:34 - So strange but cool to see such a different state of runners than what I myself have grown up watching. Several quite large / muscular persons, very different movements, composures and running styles... These days everything even in mid tier youth running is pushing right at the edge of what's possible, so precisely honed in everything from methodology, training, technical aspects, shoes - even physique... You can barely tell them apart by anything but the number on their tops and dome variation in height.

@bunk95

5 ай бұрын

Its cool to see slaves forced to run? It would have to be made to be [Olympics] cool.

It's always irritating to me when people talk about Jesse Owens in these Olympics but never mention where he explicitly says in his autobiography that while the rest of the Nazis may have been furious about his victories and maybe even Hitler himself was upset about it (there are a lot of interesting pieces of history and an amazing documentry on KZread from a black family who lived in Berlin that suggest he was not particularly prejudiced against black people, they were never rounded up or targeted like Jews, Romani, gays, etc...) Owens says that Hitler waved at him, then when he got home Roosevelt didn't even acknowledge his victories for his country whatsoever.

I think the Olympic torch ceremony origination is a perfect example of a broken clock being right twice-a-day. XD

And now for my next impression, Jesse Owens. - Clevon Little Blazing Saddles

@jffry890

11 ай бұрын

Only just saw that for the first time about two months ago. Missed that joke. Might be due for a rewatch.

I always wonder what the average German of the 1930s thought about having a "Minister opf Propaganda", did that not worry them?

A global fascination with 'eugenics' preceded the 1936 spectacle of the Berlin Olympic Games. In totality, that event served to rebuff the most extreme eugenicists.

I watched this with Game changer Audio Germen Electro in the back ground. Surprisingly it fitted well as background music,

Great video but I must say, if I become bald I pray to achieve a beard as fine as this man's.

I like how Owens and his German opponent Luz Long became friends after the 1936 Olympic Games. Long eventually had to serve in the German armed forces and was killed in Action in 1943 when the Allies invaded Sicily.

The 1936 Olympics is where all the extravagant opening ceremonies started.

BRILLIANT ty ms cdf

So the Nazi’s actually let foreigners not be punished for homosexuality during the games? You’re telling me the 1936 Nazis did what Qatar couldn’t in 2022😂. Extremely rare Nazi W🔥

@victormacs7897

10 ай бұрын

Tbh the Nazis did have a few dubbs

@bunk95

5 ай бұрын

Slaves marketed as Nazis cant punish. Does homosexuality exist outside of fiction/the death camp system (and how its marketed)

Eerily familiar situation to the 2014 winter olympics...

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

2018 World Cup even worse since it was IN THE MIDDLE of the war.

2023 smells a lot like the 1930's...

@johnnyearp52

10 ай бұрын

Sometimes but I hope we are wrong.

18:34 thank you, Simon.

Indian hockey team destroyed nazi Germany in final, 22-1 Hitler had to leave half way to save his face

Black athletes would have been served in a bar in Berlin but not in all USA ….

Wow I never seen ur legs. I was beginning to think u didn't have any

An episode about thinks invented by the Nazi but still used/done today would be good. Like the Olympic relay and Fanta.

@JCCyC

11 ай бұрын

The VW Beetle, and Autobahns. (Not sure about the last one.)

Martha Graham, considered one of the founders of modern dance, was personally invited by Goebbels to perform at the arts festival that was staged alongside the Olympic Games. However, she had already become famous (and infamous) for having an integrated dance company, and because she absolutely hated everything the Nazis clearly stood for, she wrote Goebbels one of the politest “fuck you” letters ever and publicly refused to attend; in solidarity, no American dance companies performed at the festival and it was a pretty big embarrassment for the Nazi regime. After the war, it was alleged that Graham’s name was on a list of important Americans who the Nazis wanted executed “when” they took over the USA. When she heard this story, Graham apparently reported that she “considered it to be a great compliment”.

You forgot about the Peru national team at the 36 Olympics.

Simon when he gets to talk about Nazi Germany - 😊 Simon when he has to also talk about Sports - 🙄

17:17 Considering that Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Riech" is the only even slightly interesting account of anything to do with the world wars that I ever read or watched until the days of independent KZread creators, I am not surprised by this. That book had me RIVETED, and I'd never even been able to remember the start and end years of the darn things before I'd read it. I don't understand how people called it dry!!

Reminds me of the 2018 World Cup...

@attiepollard7847

10 ай бұрын

No it doesn't. As much as a piece of s*** Putin is the Russian World cup never mirror what Hitler games was about

Bet Simon loved making this, it involves sport. Just a shame Lord of the Rings wasn't mentioned

I don't know how big basketball was in the African American community, but the idea that you're going to bar them from competing in basketball when your whole point of going there and dominating To show that racism and fascism is no good at least in this current day and age seems crazy

@liquidminds

5 ай бұрын

just look at modern sports locations.... They didn't do those in Russia or the Emirates because they wanted to protest against the conditions there... they did it for the suitcases with money...

I'm surprised laws criminalising homosexuality would have been much of a problem back then.

@johnnyearp52

10 ай бұрын

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@avaevathornton9851

10 ай бұрын

@@johnnyearp52 The 1930s were an intensely homophobic era (and I think that was bad, just to be clear), with gay people facing severe social and legal persecution in many future Allied countries, so it's surprising Nazi Germany would have suffered or expected any negative diplomatic consequences for having homophobic laws.

Awesome video

I am surprised that there was no mention of I believe this was the first Olympics that was not only televised but film doesn't feature. Hitler had his famous his favorite director Leni Riefenstahl show me off for as a feature movie later to show how wonderful all the area athletes were. She did pioneer Sports filming that broke unbelievable barriers I believe there was underwater filming there's all kind all kind of stuff that we still use today

Amongst all the KZreadrs and creators, I am most at peace anywhere in Whistlerverse✌️✌️✌️😊

It’s crazy to think Hitler created the Olympic Torch Run and no one ever mentions that

Olympics is always used to put on a "front"

Germany really did well in the metal count in 1936

18:48 ...and only a few decades to forget it all. Smh

Lololol scared the literal shit out of the pigeons

Simon when are we getting another top 10 tenz? Its been a while and i miss them.

@dsxa918

11 ай бұрын

We've Nazi'n them in a while!

@stuartcairns5757

11 ай бұрын

@@dsxa918 🤣🤣🤣. Well played my friend. 👍👍🧡

@misledprops

11 ай бұрын

Probably has his writers scouring the crevasses of earth to find a topic they haven’t covered haha. I miss them too

@stuartcairns5757

11 ай бұрын

@@misledprops thinking he's not making enough money out of it. Sad but probably true.

Black Americans were not treated equally as white Americans, but compared to any other country at the 1936 games, the US was the only country with other ethnicities. Britain and France had large empires at this time, but none of their Indian, African, or Asian citizens competed.

Do a video on North Korea hosting the 1989 international festival of youth and students which was trying to rival the 1988 Seoul summer Olympics and failed

Sorry I got Trixie mixed up it's Trookie. Is Bangladesh up or down? Blowing popscieke stand whoever can I will seek my guides.

A sidenote on Sohn Gee Jeong. Korean newspapers, in reporting his victory, removed the Japanese flag from his shirt. The result was a much more restricted censorship imposed on them by the Japanese.

@bernardedwards8461

11 ай бұрын

Nasty old Japanese, you wouldn't catch us imposing censorship!

I can't find any information Online about which British officials or royals attended these games. Any ideas?

@bunk95

5 ай бұрын

Fictional things are going places?

1:25 "Like other dictators" - a very apt remark! Another Olympics comes to mind - winter 2014 with propaganda in the background. What happened next is known.

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

​@@badofiexcept that russian military literally rolled in and invaded Ukraine in winter of 2014. It was russians who shot down MH-17 the same year. They invaded from two sides, Crimea and Donbas. And yet the Western leaders like Macron shook their hands with russians in 2018 world cup. Gifted to russia. Nobody expects France to do anything but venerate the russian terrorists again, now in Paris.

Did you sell Biographics?!

As a fellow well bearded man, I salute you Sir.

@justinsmith4562

5 ай бұрын

Lame

Looks like the world have forgotten this lesson.

I'm pretty sure this guy also has a cooking channel. Binging with Babish

I’m always disgusted at the Nazis.

These athletes were so badass. Wow.

What happened th Ms. Meyer after the Olympics?

@whimsical_me5135

10 ай бұрын

That is what I've been scrolling through the comments to find out! No one has mentioned her and I hate humanity now:/

@hucklebucklin

10 ай бұрын

I looked her up and she fled to the USA and died there in 1953 from breast cancer. A life cut short for sure but she didn't perish in the Holocaust

You should do a video of the slave castles in Ghana

@spinningbackkick6021

11 ай бұрын

He already did.

Damn i'm early it seems