"This exhibition, which originally opened at the Museum in 1996 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1936 Games and the opening of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, explores the ways in which the Nazis used the Games successfully for military training, pageantry, and propaganda. It addresses some of the controversy surrounding the Games and explores the stories of individual athletes who were barred from competition because of their ethnic or racial heritage, who chose to boycott and forfeit their chance of individual glory, or others who — like Jesse Owens — won medals and put the lie to Nazi racial beliefs."