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PTFO - Meet the Tree: Why Jesse Owens Really Brought Hitler's Olympic Gift Home

2024/8/6
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Pablo Torre: 本期节目探讨了1936年柏林奥运会上杰西·欧文斯获得金牌的传奇故事,以及他带回美国的四棵希特勒橡树的命运。照片中,欧文斯在纳粹敬礼的背景下获得金牌,展现了他对纳粹主义的无声反抗。节目还揭示了希特勒橡树背后的故事,以及它们如何成为社区团结和环境正义的象征。 Damien Thomas: 对如何应对希特勒的威胁存在争议,有人建议安抚,也有人建议抵制。杰西·欧文斯参加奥运会面临巨大压力,但他最终取得了辉煌的胜利,这与希特勒的种族主义宣传形成了鲜明对比。 Jeffrey T. Varespe & Bec Swab: 克利夫兰社区领袖和树木专家参与了拯救希特勒橡树的行动,他们通过嫁接技术培育出新的树苗,并将它们种植在克利夫兰的不同地区,以此来教育人们树木的重要性以及如何对抗环境不公正。 Pablo Torre: 节目回顾了20世纪30年代美国种族隔离背景下杰西·欧文斯的处境,以及他回国后面临的经济困境和社会不公。他不得不从事各种工作以维持生计,甚至连美国总统罗斯福也未与他握手。节目还揭示了美国政府的红线区政策对杰西·欧文斯家乡社区造成的严重破坏,以及树木对人们健康和生活预期的影响。杰西·欧文斯种植希特勒橡树的行为体现了他面对逆境仍然保有希望的精神,而这些树木最终成为了对抗种族主义和环境不公正的象征。

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Jesse Owens, after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, received four oak saplings from Hitler. These 'Hitler Oaks' became a symbol of American defiance, and their fate is explored in depth.

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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Adolf Hitler gave the legendary runner a mysterious gift: four potted oak tree saplings — one for each of the four gold medals that Owens won, while surrounded by Nazis, in one of the greatest performances in the history of sports. Almost a century later, correspondent David Fleming examines what Owens decided to do with his so-called Hitler Oaks... and why that decision remains an enduring act of American defiance. Plus: tree people, myth-busting, redlining and witch-doctor science.

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