Jesse Owens and Hitler at the 1936 Olympics

Before WWII, the Nazi were hiding their atrocities in Germany from the world. They'd already begun concentration camps around the Germany lands and started Jewish massacres, but somehow hid all this, in climax of Olympic tourists.

In 1936, three years from the largest war in the world, Germany, under Nazi rule, hosted the Olympics in Berlin. It was a Nazi fuelled event, with Nazi salutes coming from all races in the events. The real reason for the Olympics was to showcase the Aryan Race's skills and genetics, and how more advanced they were than the other races.

This backfired when Jesse Owens, a 23 year old African-American took four gold medals in the 100m; 200m; 4x100m relay; long jump - showing his impressive skills. The Olympics is often remembered for the incident after he won the various medals, when Hitler illegibly snubbed Owens on his wins, by not applauding him when winning.

But, this is completely wrong! Hitler did not snub Owens, and in fact, Hitler did enjoy Jesse Owens wins, waving and smiling at him after the award ceremony. The reason why Hitler did not applaud him is because he was asked to either applaud all the athlete's or none, Hitler chose to applaud none, on the second day.

Jesse Owens did say he was not "snubbed" by Hitler, quoting: "When I passed the Chancellor, he arouse, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him, Hitler didn't snub me." - the real convict of snobbery was actually his own President at the time: Franklin D. Roosevelt. He didn't send Jesse Owens even so much as a telegram, congratulating the athlete on the four gold medals wins! Once he came back to America, he wasn't even invited to the White House, to shake hands with the President!

True snubbery! Of course, I'm not claiming Hitler is this nice man now, but I'm just clearing up a rumour in History to what many people believe is true.