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  1. Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

    What really happened at the long jump pit that day between Jesse Owens and Luz Long?

  2. Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour

    A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.

  3. Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

    The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.

  4. Part 3: Mustache to Mustache

    The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?

  5. Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

    Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.

  6. Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

    In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.

  7. Introducing... Hitler's Olympics

    Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics

  8. Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

    What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?

  9. Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”

    The fight over the games provided Americans a chance to study Nazi Germany.

  10. Hitler’s Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

    The hidden life of one of America’s iconic sports heroes, Jesse Owens.