# Jessie Owens wins! Hitler is humiliated?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessie-owens-wins-hitler-is-humiliated/834997>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessie-owens-wins-hitler-is-humiliated/834997 "2019-06-04T03:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessie-owens-wins-hitler-is-humiliated/834997/21 "2019-06-05T14:29:15Z")

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> [@KarlGauss](#):
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> [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szten4iypCM) contains eyewitness testimony from an unusually reliable source that Hitler shook Owens hand in congratulations.
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> I apologize but can’t remember when in this wonderful one hour video it occurs, but it definitely is an eyewitness statement made by a still-living witness - a remarkable man, whose life is history: [Eric ‘Winkel’ Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)).

The recollection regarding Hitler shaking Owens’ hand is just after 5:25 in that video.

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