The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...

In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I, the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose ...

She swam at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, flew with the WASPs in World War II and trained pilots at a time when few women were ...

Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics on the ... that led to Nazi Germany hosting the Summer Olympics, and what led countries across the world to ...

Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...

Passages: Iris Cummings Critchell, Oldest Survivor of 1936 Olympics, Dies at 104 Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was ...

(JTA) — Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a high jumper who was barred from the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish, died in New York at 103. Her niece, Doris Bergman, confirmed that Lambert ...