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'Jesse Owens Was Here'
Today, there's an effort to convert Berlin’s neglected 1936 Olympic Village into a museum.
Berlin's 1936 Summer Olympics began on August 1 at the city's Olympic Stadium.
Hitler saw the event as an opportunity to showcase the Third Reich to the world (a mission dampened by the success of U.S. track and field athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals). The remaining infrastructure of those Olympics carries a tainted legacy, though the main stadium was thoroughly renovated for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.