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## Video: PBS Documentary: 'Boys of '36'

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_Published 2016-07-08. Exclusive clip from a PBS documentary on the stunning defeat of the Nazi crew team by American rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin._


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## Transcript

[ BLANK_AUDIO ] The opening ceremony was held on August 1st at the newly built sports stadium. [ APPLAUSE ] The host's objective was not simply to welcome the world to Berlin. [ NOISE ] But to put on a show of national unity and pride, unlike any the world has ever seen. To Adolf Hitler, the games were the ultimate propaganda tool .

>> He very effective propagandist. And he is going to use the Olympics as his great show. He was going to bring out onto the world this new healed Germany, this reunified Germany, a stronger Germany, but also, he insisted, a peaceful Germany. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he was planning for war. [ MUSIC ] Hitler expected the German teams would dominate the games. [ MUSIC ] The rowing team that the host nation brought to the narrow lake, Langer See. was no exception [ MUSIC ] The German team was extremely dominant their government made it a national priority that their sport team should succeed.

[ MUSIC ] They had clubs all over the country, that were well- coached, well- funded. They're given uninterrupted training. If they have jobs, they quit the jobs. And they're sponsored by the government. [ MUSIC ] University of Washington, the Americans, come in as poor athletes from an unknown part of the world. Their ethic is because these guys worked on farms and crappy jobs. There's sort of a purity versus this artifice. [ SOUND ] And the boys went out and just sort of explored the streets. And they quickly discovered that whenever Germans walk up to them they would extend their hands, get the Nazi salute and say, heil Hitler.

So the boys didn't quite know what to do about that. So they took to walking up to Germans, extending their hands and saying, Heil Roosevelt. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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