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Although Made into an Avatar of Nazi Germany, Max Schmeling Was among the Righteous
The heavyweight’s two fateful bouts with the African American champion Joe Louis.
In 1936, the German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling faced off against Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium, in what became the first loss of Louis’s professional career. When the two fought again, in the same venue, two years later, spectators saw the match as a contest between a representative of a state that had embraced racism as its guiding principle, and an African American. But, writes Dean Karayanis—drawing on an interview with the veteran Jewish sportswriter Jerry Izenberg, who listened to the 1938 fight on the radio as a boy—Schmeling was hardly the avatar of Nazi Germany spectators on either side of the Atlantic imagined:
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Although Made into an Avatar of Nazi Germany, Max Schmeling Was among the Righteous
The heavyweight’s two fateful bouts with the African American champion Joe Louis.