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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:26:20 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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   • cjd
   • Lioh
   @sj_zero @cjd @Lioh Hitler shook Jesse Owens' hand and congratulated him on his gold medal, unlike America. The framing that the Nazis were all about hate for others rather than love for their own is actual propaganda. I am not a Nazi, but realizing this makes it easier to understand WW2 and current events from a more honest perspective.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:53:24 JST sj_zero

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     Fair enough. I've talked before about the difference between the popular history and real history, and when making statements like the above it's typically using pop history to engage with a common shorthand (knowing that I often don't use shorthand resulting in massive effortposts)
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:57:42 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @HWABAG @cjd @Lioh @sj_zero Hey you're right. My bad.

     Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. According to sports reporter and author Paul Gallico, writing from Berlin, Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves. So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”

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     HWABAG (hwabag@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:57:43 JST HWABAG

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     Hitler never shook his hands with that nigger.
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     Witch Hunter Siegfired (witch_hunter_siegfired@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:59:54 JST Witch Hunter Siegfired

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     @HWABAG @BowsacNoodle @cjd @Lioh @sj_zero Aye, luckily our Uncle was gone at the time.
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