ABCNews.Go.com – By Kirk Honeycutt
Palm Springs, California (Hollywood Reporter) – The Nazi era continues to throw up amazing real-life stories, and “Berlin ’36′” is certainly another one.
The story of Gretel Bergmann is hardly an obscure tale, however, as much has been written over the years about the German-Jewish athlete cruelly tricked into preparing to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Nazi government officials only to be thrown off the team for “underperformance” despite being Germany’s best woman high jumper.