Before the 1936 fight, Schmeling received a cable from Hitler: "To the coming World's Champion, Max Schmeling. Wishing you every success." Hitler also sent a Japanese maple to the boxer as a ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first ... did not join or support the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner, floored Max Schmeling three times and ... In one corner was Schmeling, representing Hitler (though Schmeling wasn't a Nazi) and everything fascism stood for.

Hitler's action was designed to create a diplomatic ... Soon after the crisis, German boxer Max Schmeling met Joe Louis for the first time in the ring, and crushed the seemingly unstoppable ...

September 28: Max Schmeling is born in Klein-Luckow ... January 30: Controversial political leader Adolf Hitler is names chancellor of Germany. Within months, he will establish himself as ...

Boente added: "The Klitschko's found Max Schmeling a close friend and they ... boxing certainly did not do him any harm. "He was anti-Hitler and a really good human being. He has got to be up ...

ON JUNE 19 1936 the Brown Bomber Joe Louis climbed through the ropes at the Yankee Stadium in New York to face German heavyweight contender Max Schmeling in ... Despite his message praising Hitler ...

The June 1938 boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling became known as one ... Louis and became the toast of Germany, with Hitler and Goebbels among his fans. A rematch was inevitable.