![]() Everyone knew that Hitler disliked the Jews, but few imagined that he would attempt to exterminate them. But in 1935 it was still possible to assume that European Jewry was not on the precipice of extinction, just as it was possible to believe that Hitler was not quite a madman. If he had known, he would have felt differently about the boycott. Like the AOC, he did not know, as we now know, that there would be a holocaust, that Hitler and his regime would eventually kill millions, that the Germans would attack Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. Of course, it is also crucial to remember that Snyder’s opinion was not informed by the gift of foresight. He knew, too, that then Owens would never have to look back. ![]() He thought that if Owens got the chance to compete, he would win every event he entered. But his first loyalty was to Jesse Owens. ![]() ![]() Unlike Avery Brundage of the AOC and Dean Cromwell of USC, he was far from sympathetic to the Nazi cause. ![]()
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