Synopsis
Michael Portillo learns how new rail lines were constructed to transport crowds of spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936, how a planned boycott by the United States and other European nations failed, and how the success of a black American athlete undermined the Nazi ideology of Aryan superiority.
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