Helene Mayer, Nazi Germany’s Jewish Olympian
By Bear Smith, Reference Services Librarian
Helene Mayer, Nazi Germany’s Jewish Olympian
The 1936 Summer Olympics were, famously, held in Berlin while Germany was under Nazi rule. The Games had not been awarded to the Nazis, though. The International Olympic Committee had awarded the games to Germany in 1931, two years before Hitler’s rise to chancellor and the eventual Nazi takeover of the country….
