During the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Black History Month observation and recognition event Feb. 22, participants watched an 11-minute video about Black American athletes and their contributions to the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics during the Nazi reign. At these Olympic Games, Black Americans such as John Woodruff, Jesse Owens, Cornelius Johnson and Archie Williams took home eight gold medals and six silver and bronze medals, crushing the preposterous Nazi assertion that the Aryan race was the world’s superb race.

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