On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is
also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented
consolidation of power in the short history of the republic. 

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)

On this day at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, African American track
star Jesse  Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Games in
the 4×100-meter relay. His relay team set a new world record of
39.8 seconds, which held for 20 years. In their strong showing in
track-and-field events at the XIth Olympiad, Jesse Owens and
other African American athletes struck a propaganda blow
against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who planned to use the Berlin
Games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority.

Owens with Adolf Hitler.

One of Jesse Owens’ four gold medals won at the 1936
Olympics in Berlin.

TIM MAGUIRE

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)

On June 1, 1942, a Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty
Brigade, made public the news of the gassing of tens of
thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a Nazi-operated death camp
in Poland—almost seven months after extermination of
prisoners began.

Investigation of Chelmno Death Camp being conducted.

Children rounded up for deportation to the Chelmno death camp.

Chelmno extermination camp burial pits.

Chelmno extermination camp memorial.

VW V30 Prototype (1937) – Replica

On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the
control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—
formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known
as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens
mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk,
or “The People’s Car Company.”

Originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi
organization, Volkswagen was headquartered in Wolfsburg,
Germany.