Jewish athlete gets back the record nazis stole
A former high jumper Margaret Bergmann Lambert finally saw her German national record restored yesterday – 73 years after the nazis disallowed it because she’s Jewish, NY Post reports.
“I’m very happy they finally did what they did — I was a damned good high jumper,” 95-year-old Lambert said from the Jamaica Estates home in Queens, New York, she shares with her 99-year-old husband, Bruno.
Lambert, who competed under the name of Gretel Bergmann, set the German high-jump mark of 5 feet, 3 inches on 30th June, 1936. At the time, she was nominally a member of the German Olympic team, which was about to host the Berlin Games, but in truth, she was being used as a political pawn by nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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