German Fuhrer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler (centre, on balcony) greets the crowd during the snowy opening ceremonies of the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany in ...

Germany restored the 1936 high jump record to a Jewish woman. Gretel Bergmann was kicked off the German 1936 Olympic track and field team, which she joined in 1934, because she was Jewish, despite ...

Germany has restored a national high-jump record from 1936 to 95-year-old Margaret Bergmann Lambert of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., whom the Nazis had disqualified because she was Jewish. Lambert had been a ...

LONDON – Hiding in plain sight beside a row of London 2012 shuttle buses stands a small metal frame holding the mystery of a past Olympics. Attached to the frame is a photograph. It is an old ...

In the summer of 1936, America sweltered through a heat wave and endured the depths of the Great Depression. In Cleveland, safety director Elliott Ness fought the mob and searched for the Torso ...

EVERYBODY who knows the history of modern Europe is well aware that for centuries the dynamic forces centering in the Hapsburg dominions have affected the peace and political progress of the whole ...

LONDON – Hiding in plain sight beside a row of London 2012 shuttle buses stands a small metal frame holding the mystery of a past Olympics. Attached to the frame is a photograph. It is an old ...