--- title: American Olympic Rowers Beat Nazi Germany: Exclusive Clip description: Watch an exclusive clip from a PBS documentary about the stunning defeat of the Nazi team by American rowers at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin canonical: https://time.com/4398779/nazi-rowers-hitler-pbs-documentary/ author: Olivia B. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:32 AM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2016 12:30 PM UTC  The University of Washington's varsity crew team at the Poughkeepsie Regatta Races in June 1936\. Pictured from right to left: Bob Moch, Coxwain; Don Hume, Stroke; Joe Rantz, 7; George Hunt, 6; Jim McMillin, 5; John White, 4; Gordon Adams, 3; Charles Day, 2; and Roger Morris, 1. The University of Washington's varsity crew team at the Poughkeepsie Regatta Races in June 1936\. Pictured from right to left: Bob Moch, Coxwain; Don Hume, Stroke; Joe Rantz, 7; George Hunt, 6; Jim McMillin, 5; John White, 4; Gordon Adams, 3; Charles Day, 2; and Roger Morris, 1. Courtesy of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:32 AM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2016 12:30 PM UTC Olympic athletes are known for undergoing grueling endurance training to master their sports. But many have also endured personal hardships to get to the games in the first place. An uplifting story about the latter type of endurance is the subject of the upcoming PBS American Experience documentary [_The Boys of ’36_](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/boys36/), which is about the nine working-class men on the University of Washington’s crew team who won a gold medal 80 years ago in competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. While getting to that level of athletic achievement at the height of the Great Depression, these sons of loggers and farmers — who worked on salmon boats and as janitors to pay for college — managed to best more privileged oarsmen, like collegiate rivals from the University of California and the Ivy League schools of the East Coast, as well as those from the U.K.’s Oxford and Cambridge. But, as this exclusive clip shows, their Olympic victory was the most astonishing of all: Nazi Germany’s swastika-wearing rowers quit their jobs to train for the Olympics and were, like many German athletes, seen as a point of national pride, given the opportunity to do anything necessary to achieve a win. After all, that year’s Olympic Games were meant to be[ a key propaganda tool](http://time.com/3971065/photos-1936-summer-olympics-jesse-owens/) for Adolf Hitler, who aimed to showcase the physical superiority of the German people—and to present a picture of a country at peace, even as he had already started down the road to World War II. [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) The hour-long documentary — inspired by [Daniel James Brown](http://www.penguin.com/book/the-boys-in-the-boat-by-daniel-james-brown/9781611761696)’s _New York Times_ bestseller_The Boys in the Boat_ and featuring interviews with children of the oarsmen _—_ airs on August 2\. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4398779/nazi-rowers-hitler-pbs-documentary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4398779/nazi-rowers-hitler-pbs-documentary/"},"headline":"Exclusive Clip: The U.S. Rowers Who Beat the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics","datePublished":"2016-07-19T12:30:44.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T06:32:57.000Z","description":"They won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which had been intended as a propaganda tool for Adolf Hitler","url":"https://time.com/4398779/nazi-rowers-hitler-pbs-documentary/","keywords":["Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4769f416e94c541/69889b468e0601c1b9466a1f/1968_m_corbis_42-81620847_1936.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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