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A fencing prodigy at 13, German Senior Champion (1925) at 14, and Olympic Gold Medallist (1928) before her eighteenth birthday, Helene Mayer was a goddess to her German countrymen. But, by 1930, with her Jewish past identified, she was living in self-imposed exile in California. With a threatened boycott of the 1936 Berlin Games over the issue of anti-Semitism, the Nazi party came up with a brilliant public relations strategy: for two weeks Berlin would be declared a hate-free city. The blonde beauty, once viewed as the essence of Aryan womanhood, would be brought home to fence for the Fatherland. Now, as Hitler's token Jewish Olympian, she was determined to win back her citizenship...
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"Mogulof competently documents the rise and fall of one of the greatest fencers of all time." -Publisher's Weekly
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- PublisherRdr Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 157143092X
- ISBN 13 9781571430922
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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