icking your arm straight out in front of your chest, it was suppose to be straight to the right and parallel to the ground. This was known as the official Olympic salute. The French team passed with the Olympic salute, the thousands of Germans in the stands mis-understood it for the Nazi salute, and gave a roar of approval. The teams behind the French were the Italians, and they gave the Nazi salute, the crowd also responded with a roar of approval. The Americans put their hats over their hearts, as they passed by Hitler’s booth. The crowd did not like it; another thing they didn’t like about the Americans was their flag hadn’t been dipped down as they passed the booth, but all the other nation’s flags were dipped. In the 100-meter dash there were twelve preliminary rounds, which were all to be ran the first day of competition. In order to advance from there the top two runners of each race will go on to the semi-final. Owens’s was scheduled to run in the last round, which was good for him because it let him see what he would have to race against if he made it to the finals. He ran with his teammate Ralph Metcalfe, he lost in the 1932 Olympics of the 100 meter dash, only by a photo finish. Jesse Owens went on to win against Metcalfe in the race only by a few yards. So once again Metcalfe was defeated by only a little distance.Hitler greeted and praised all other gold medal winners from Germany and Finland. But when the African-Americans Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton won first and second in the hight jump, Hitler left the stadium before the U.S. national anthem played. The Olympic committee told Hitler he had to greet all medal winnders or none. After that, Hitler congratulated no one in public. American newspaper headlines blared, “Hitler Ignores Negro Medallists.” Other newspapers expanded the story into “Hitler Snubs Jesse.” The fact that Hitler didn’t congratulate Je...
