This chapter examines the intricate emotions and geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Nazi Germany during the Olympics era, revealing conflicting American racial attitudes and a German observer's perspectives. It highlights a pivotal 1934 Potsdam conference where legal scholars scrutinized the Nazis' oppressive plans for the Jewish population, illustrating the regime's efforts to formalize radical proposals within the law.
In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too.
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