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Line 88: [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-G00630, Sommerolympiade, Siegerehrung Weitsprung.jpg|thumb|267px|Owens salutes the American flag after winning the long jump at the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]. [[Naoto Tajima]], Owens, [[Luz Long]].]] In 2014, [[Eric Brown (pilot)|Eric Brown]], British fighter pilot and test pilot, aged 17 in 1936 and later becoming the [[Fleet Air Arm]]'s most decorated pilot,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.paisley.ac.uk/services/specialcoll/putnam/ptn97.htm|title=Paisley University Library Special Collections – Putnam Aeronautical 1997|access-date=November 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304030924/http://library.paisley.ac.uk/services/specialcoll/putnam/ptn97.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2009}}</ref> stated in a [[BBC]] documentary: "I actually witnessed Hitler shaking hands with Jesse Owens and congratulating him on what he had achieved".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045pbq2/|title=BBC Two – Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown (at 05:35 of the documentary)|publisher=BBC|date=January 1, 1970|access-date=June 1, 2014}}</ref> Additionally, an article in ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' in August 1936 reported that Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1673318912.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+18%2C+1936&author=&pub=The+Sun+%281837-1985%29&desc=OWENS+WEIGHS+HIS+PRO+OFFERS&pqatl=google |title=Owens Weighs His Pro Offers |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=August 18, 1936 |via=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |access-date=September 15, 2011}}</ref> Later, on October 15, 1936, Owens repeated this Owens' success at the games caused consternation for Hitler, who was using them to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany.<ref name="Bachrach">{{cite book|last=Bachrach|first=Susan D. |url=https://archive.org/details/naziolympicsberl00bach|title=The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936|year=2000 |publisher=Little, Brown, and Company |isbn=0-316-07087-4|url-access=registration}}</ref> He and other government officials had hoped that German athletes would dominate the games.<ref name="Bachrach" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/jesse-owens-1913--1980-he-was-once-the-fastest-runner-in-the-world-128523103/116594.html |title=Jesse Owens, 1913–1980: He Was Once the Fastest Runner in the World|date=August 27, 2011|work=Voice of America|access-date=February 26, 2015}}</ref> Nazi minister [[Albert Speer]] wrote that Hitler "was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/research-projects/football-and-politics-in-europe-1930s-1950s/hitler-and-nazi-philosophy/|title=Hitler, Nazi Philosophy and Sport|last1=Anspach|first1=Emma|last2=Almog|first2=Hilah|year=2009|website=Duke.edu|access-date=March 23, 2014}}</ref> | |||