documentary on these boxers lives, their fights, and being reluctant national/cultural warriors.
Joe Louis' reticence, his "mask" and "the good negro".
Max Schmeling and manager Joe Jacobs----the...
documentary on these boxers lives, their fights, and being reluctant national/cultural warriors.
Joe Louis' reticence, his "mask" and "the good negro".
Max Schmeling and manager Joe Jacobs----the Jack Sharkey/Max Schmeling fight and the "Low-blow champion" --- Hitler's rise, persecutions, and Max Schmeling adapts --
interview clips with:
Truman Gibson - Joe Louis' attorney Boxing historian Herb Goldman Boxing promoter Don Majeski sports writer Gerd Reimann writer Jack Newfield Prof David Bathrick sports writer Volker Kluge
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When Joe Louis asked Lena Horne, with whom he was then having a relationship, to keep score for him at a Hollywood golf benefit, the singer refused -- she was entertaining troops that day. Joe hit her with a left hook. Then he started to choke her. In his 1978 autobiography, written with Edna and Art Rust Jr., Louis said that the only thing that saved Lena's life was an aunt in the next room who threatened to call the police
When Joe Louis asked Lena Horne, with whom he was then having a relationship, to keep score for him at a Hollywood golf benefit, the singer refused -- she was entertaining troops that day. Joe hit her with a left hook. Then he started to choke her. In his 1978 autobiography, written with Edna and Art Rust Jr., Louis said that the only thing that saved Lena's life was an aunt in the next room who threatened to call the police
Max knew he would be able to get the necessary money to Louiss widow quickly so that she could organise a fitting funeral.) Look on the official Auschwitz site and you will see the only German named as a hero, other than the Schindlers, is Max. Rant over!
As Hitler and his aids said of him Schmeling was a good boxer, but a poor politician. He was definitely not an attention seeker or he would have told about the lives he saved prior to a Jewish boy he saved during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938 explaining how Max had telegrammed him to ask that he pay for Joe Louiss funeral and Max would send him the money. (He had gone on to become a successful hotel operator and
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