1936. The Spanish Civil War began. American Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, undermining Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority. In England, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson; Politician Oswald Mosely’s British Union of Fascists, or Blackshirts fervently recruited. Outside Germany, some admired the country’s economic recovery […]
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:09PM on May 15, 2026