Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship. The two ...

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Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, touted as a Nazi ideal in 1930s Germany, is best known for two highly symbolic and historically charged bouts against American champion Joe Louis. Schmeling ...

Florio and Shapiro (One Nation Under Baseball) vividly recount the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, ...

Docudrama about German boxer Max Schmeling (Henry Maske), who rose to fame as the heavyweight world champion before he was forced to become a paratrooper in the German Air Force during World War II.

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship. The two ...