why did the Adolf Hitler denied to be photographed by shaking hands with Jesse Owens? Explain in brief
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By early 1933 Adolf Hitler had effectively become the dictator of Germany. All non-Nazi parties, organizations, and labour unions had ceased to exist. The reciprocal ideologies of pan-Germanic expansionism and anti-Semitism had taken root. Members of “non-Aryan” (non-white and Jewish) races were perceived and portrayed as inferior and degenerate. Nazi sports imagery served to promote the myth of Aryan racial superiority. So-called Aryan facial features—blonde hair and blue eyes—were accentuated in posters and journal illustrations. In April 1933 the Nazis’ sports office ordered all public athletic organizations to implement an “Aryans-only” policy. The policy sparked global outrage: just two years earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin, and now Olympic organizers in the United States and Europe were considering pulling out of the Berlin Olympics altogether.
In 1934 Avery Brundage, the president of the United States Olympic Committee, responded to reports of German persecution of Jewish athletes by inspecting German sporting facilities. Brundage determined that Jewish athletes were being treated fairly and subsequently came out in favour of sending American athletes to Berlin. In December 1935 the Amateur Athletic Union, which represented the United States in international sports federations, approved U.S. participation by a narrow vote. Olympic organizations from other countries followed suit.