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Why weren’t the Games boycotted?
• American Amateur Athletic Union said yes
• Opposed German policies about exclusion of all non-Aryans (Jews) from organized athletics
• American Olympic Committee (Avery Brundage) went to Germany to see for themselves
• Received written assurance that Jewish athletes could try out for the German national team
notes to know
Jesse Owens - 3 world records
big question: How did Hitler use sports to promote political message?
Why 1948?
1936 Berlin - most recent games
1940 cancelled due to war
1944 not even considered due to war
1948 back to the “sacred truce”?