GERMANY: Schmeling Reward

"Schmeling's shattering fist has smashed all adversaries of National Socialism in the face and saved the prestige of the white race!" crowed Das Schwarze Korps, newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's black-jacketed Special Guard last week. By order of Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, all editors in the Fatherland were barred from ever printing another sports article by Boxing Expert Arthur Billow, who had predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling...

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