>The puzzle with that allegation, Olympic historian John Lucas said Thursday,
>is this: "What profit would it have been for Dean Cromwell or the [American]
>Olympic Committee or Avery Brundage to replace two Jews with two blacks?"
>Lucas, a Penn State professor, said, "I have no answer."
A few years ago, I heard a theory on the answer to this intriguing
question. At least, if the first assumption holds that Brundage somehow
had Cromwell under his thumb, and Brundage was trying to appease the Nazis.
So the extended question then becomes, why would the NAZIS want to have
the Americans replace two Jews with two blacks?
The answer posited, if true, is unfortunately a bit ugly, but then
we can't expect much historically from the Nazi's, can we?
It seems that the Propaganda Ministry, along with racial "experts"
employed by the S.S., felt that they had to have a pseudo-scientific
basis for almost every racial policy they wanted to impose.
The question-
'Why is it okay for the best athletes that Germany can develop to
lose to negro sprinters, at the same time that Jews have been thrown
out of German clubs and excluded from championship meets?
Are negroes more acceptable on a human racial "scale" than Jews?'
The answer (my paraphrase from what I can recall)-
"Jews are indeed the lowest on the human racial scale [with Aryans, of
course, at the other end of the scale]. Any kind of interaction with
Jews is unacceptable.
Negroes, on the hand, are not human. They are of a completely different,
inferior, genetic class.
Current [1936] Olympic standards allow their entry.
There is no more shame in German sprinters losing a race to a negro than
in losing a race to a cheetah, a leopard, or a thoroughbred horse.
It is believed that all future Olympic Games will be held in Nuremberg
once the new 400,000 seat stadium is completed in about 1943.
At that time, non-human species such as negroes will be excluded, along
with all non-Aryan human races."
Anyway, that's how the story went. Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.
RT
