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First of all: I would like to revise my story that Jesse Owens raised his fist in the air in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in 1936 with his head bowed. This is not true. The actions of Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968 during the Olympic Games in Mexico. Dear listeners!

I have received a large number of personal emails and would like to thank all listeners who found this program enriching and who responded to me in a factual, critical but also benevolent manner about the story about Jesse Owens. That touched me very much. Thank you. I want to sincerely apologize to Tommie Smith, John Carlos and everyone listening for the false narrative. I would like to make this mistake unheard. I can't really see it that way, but I'd really like to set the record straight. (My statement has been edited out and can now be heard in full on my website.)

Today I would like to announce the song again: The next track takes us back almost 100 years, to the Olympic Games in Berlin, where Adolf Hitler wanted to show his racial fantasies and his ideology to the world. With a great sporting spectacle he wanted to show everyone that white people were superior to the rest of the world.

He had made the calculation without Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete who came to the Olympics in Berlin and who won four gold medals. It is undisputed that Owens made Hitler's Olympic party his gold party and thwarted his racial madness and went down in history as a sporting hero.

Credit: Granger
Peter Norman (l.), Tommie Smith (m.), John Carlos (r.)

However, I mistakenly lived for a long time in the illusion of confusion and thought Owens was a revolutionary who raised his fist in the air during the award ceremony in 1936 and went into resistance.

This picture, this gesture of eternity, was actually taken in 1968, 32 years later, and shows the African-American Olympic champion Tommie Smith and the third-placed John Carlson on the winner's podium during the Olympic Games in Mexico. In doing so, they set an example against discrimination and racial hatred in the USA. They were supported by second-placed Peter Norman (Australia), who, like them, wore the "Olympic Project for Human Rights" badge and supported their campaign.  As did Owens, who received the recognition he certainly deserved for his sporting successes , Smith and Carlos were also long despised for their meticulously planned protest action and for their admirable political consciousness. Only years later did they receive the long-needed respect and recognition for their courage and their move forward...

Link: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-breakdancer-und-choreograf-raphael-moussa-hillebrand-100.html