The Boys of ’36: Preparing for the Olympic Games

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University of Washington 1936 Olympics Olympic Games Berlin rowing American Experience Hitler Germany Great Depression Ivy League Boys of '36 Boys on the Boat Olympic trials Olympic athletes Olympic team US Olympic team
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The Boys of ’36: Preparing for the Olympic Games

Learn how nine working-class young men from the University of Washington secured their spot in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and took the rowing world and America by storm, in these videos excerpted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Boys of ’36. Their unexpected victory, against not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers, gave hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression.
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