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Owens takes his fourth gold in Berlin, in the stadium built for Nazi propaganda
The 4x100 relay victory capped a week that undercut the Nazi message the Games were built to send.
Hitler had wanted the 1936 Games to showcase Aryan supremacy to the world, in a stadium built for exactly that message. Instead, Jesse Owens, a sharecropper's son from Alabama, won the 100 meters, the 200 meters, and the long jump, then ran the 4x100 relay for his fourth gold on August 9. Owens became the meet's most successful athlete outright. Hitler, who had already stopped greeting any medalists after being told to greet all or none, left the stadium without acknowledging Owens's wins…
