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richlevy · 08-25-2004, 10:19 PM

I watched Hitler's Pawn last month. It's the story of Margaret Lambert, a Jewish athlete who was forced to return to Germany to compete in the 1936 olympics to prevent a boycott.

Two other interesting items were that the Germans dressed a male athlete as a woman and that Avery Brundage , a US olympic official and later head of the International Olympic Committee, was instrumental in preventing a boycott and was rewarded with the construction contract for the German embassy in the US.

HBO is still showing it this month.

08-25-2004, 10:19 PM	#7
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I watched Hitler's Pawn last month. It's the story of Margaret Lambert, a Jewish athlete who was forced to return to Germany to compete in the 1936 olympics to prevent a boycott. Two other interesting items were that the Germans dressed a male athlete as a woman and that Avery Brundage , a US olympic official and later head of the International Olympic Committee, was instrumental in preventing a boycott and was rewarded with the construction contract for the German embassy in the US. HBO is still showing it this month. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama