Strange Salute

by James M. Pitsula

Cover: The Beaver August/September 2004 Their host was a Nazi dictator, but Canadian athletes
at the 1936 Berlin Olympics thought good manners
should prevail. This article originally appeared in
The Beaver, August/September 2004. Read another
Beaver summer Olympic story in Olympiad, Get on your Mark! .

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