The team that ridiculed the III Reich

We all know the story of Jesse Owens, the colored athlete, grandson of slaves who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics before an Adolf Hitler who saw the Olympic event as the perfect setting to extol Nazism and Aryan superiority.But Owens was not the only American to ridicule Hitler, the rowing team also humiliated Nazi Germany .At that time, rowing was the king of the Olympic Games next to athletics, so the German defeat was even more sounded.

An amateur team

Although the American university sports system was already a reality, a group of workers from the state of Washington, farmers, loggers or poachers of salmon , won over the university students and became the US representative in Berlin.An Olympic success would allow them to abandon monotonous life in their icy towns in the northwest of the country and reach the glor ia.After a hard training, before embarking the first unforeseen came: Bobby Morch, his helmsman, discovered that he was Jewish.However, he got on the ship.

Once in Berlin, the American rowers were dedicated to stop along the boulevard Unter den Linden while they were eating bratwursts, they bought Kodak cameras and tried to link with the Germans like any other tourist.Roosvelt ”with whom they greeted each time they heard a“ Heil Hitler.”And so they went on phases until they reached the final.

14-8-1936, 18:00

At that time the departure of the final was scheduled for 8 with a helmsman, where in addition to the US, Nazi Germany, Fascist Musolini Italy or British university students participated, another country with a great tradition in rowing.The weather, a rainy afternoon and dark, it did not accompany; Don Hume, one of the rowers, had a fever and as if that were not enough the German Olympic Committee assigned the worst lane to the US , while the German representatives stayed the best, where there should be been the Americans.

The US team did not find out about the start, and began rowing with a half-draw and a handicap on Germany .The ideal scenario for Germans and Italians, who marched in the lead with a five-second lead against the USA.With Hitler and Goebbels in the stands and the public overturned with the German team, the US captained by Jew Morch put 200 at the top.meters.After the effort, Germans and Italians reached them and reached the finish line so close that almost nobody knew who the winner was.

When the public address announced io the American victory, Hitler, Goebbels and the rest of Nazi hierarchies left the lake where the oar was disputed.A story much less known than Jesse Owens but that was another important blow to the Nazi Olympic propaganda.

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