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@ Mr Chogy:Adolf Hitler 'did shake hands with Jesse Owens':
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“Hitler didn’t snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”— Jesse Owens, in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (Jeremy Schaap, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“Hitler didn’t snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”— Jesse Owens, in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (Jeremy Schaap, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)
Adolf Hitler 'did shake hands with Jesse Owens' - Telegraph"At the time, it was reported that Hitler had stormed out of the stadium furious that Owens, who had just run his way to the first of four gold medals in the 100 metres, had beaten his Aryan sportsmen.
However, Siegfried Mischner, 83, said that Owens carried around a photograph in his wallet of Hitler shaking his hand before he left the stadium.
Owens, who felt the newspapers of the day reported "unfairly" on Hitler's attitude towards him, tried to get Mischner and his journalist colleagues to change the accepted version of history in the 1960s, the Daily Mail reports.
Mischner, who was a reporter at the time, claimed Owens showed him the photograph and told him: "That was one of my most beautiful moments."
He said: "It was taken behind the honour stand and so not captured by the world's press. But I saw it, I saw him shaking Hitler's hand."