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	Joe Louis v Max Schmeling Boxing Article
		Schmeling had the won the title in 1930 becoming the first man to win the championship on his stool after being hit low by Jack Sharkey.
		Schmeling lost the title on a decision to Sharkey in 1932 and was seen by many as just another opponent for the fast rising Louis.
		Schmeling was depicted as a Nazi who supported Hitler and Louis as a man fighting for freedom.
	www.saddoboxing.com /boxing-article/Joe-Louis-v-Max-Schmeling.html (635 words)

	Max Schmeling (1905-2005)
		Max Schmeling was buried February 4th next to his wife, Anny Ondra, in Hollenstedt, Germany at a ceremony attended by a small circle of friends.
		Max Schmeling's extraordinary career will be remembered for his bouts with Louis, which produced a lasting bond between the boxers despite a charged atmosphere when they fought.
		Schmeling was a 10-1 underdog and his victory is considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /memorial/max/schmeling.html (1069 words)

	Mythic Ideals: Max Schmeling (1905-2005) \| PopMatters Sports Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schmeling was white, German, and a reluctant symbol of Aryan supremacy poised to spread throughout Europe and beyond.
		Schmeling and Louis remain connected to this day, demonstrated by this and other commemorations of the German boxer, who died 2 February at age 99.
		Schmeling was likewise held up by a group of people whose politics he declined and, on more than one occasion, directly contravened.
	www.popmatters.com /sports/features/050207-maxschmeling.shtml (931 words)

	Max Schmeling, 99; boxer from Germany fought Louis - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schmeling was buried yesterday next to his wife, Anny Ondra, in Hollenstedt at a ceremony attended by a small circle of friends.
		Schmeling's extraordinary career will be remembered for his bouts with Louis, which produced a lasting bond between the boxers despite a charged atmosphere when they fought.
		Schmeling was a 10-to-1 underdog and his victory is considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/05/max_schmeling_99_boxer_from_germany_fought_louis (1106 words)

	The quiet man
		Schmeling was in training at the Napanoch Country Club just outside of Ellenville, getting ready for his rematch with reigning heavyweight champion Joe Louis, a battle that some boxing fans still rate as the fight of the century.
		Schmeling secreted the boys in his apartment, leaving word at the front desk that he was ill and that no one was to visit him.
		Schmeling wasn't a Nazi, but he's remembered as one because not everyone in the country could see the humanity behind the mask Schmeling was forced to wear, the humanity that saved lives, helped old friends and gave a 10-year-old boy the thrill of a lifetime.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2004/12/19/jhmaxche.htm (1403 words)

	Max Schmeling \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Max Schmeling, Germany's former world heavyweight champion, who has died aged 99, will primarily be remembered as the boxer who lost the most politically charged sporting bout in history.
		Schmeling, dropped three times, was bewildered, semi-conscious and slumped on all fours when rescued by the referee, after one of the most savage onslaughts ever seen in a prize ring.
		Born in Uckermark, in the state of Brandenburg, Schmeling was raised in Hamburg and had ambitions to be a football goalkeeper until, at the age of 14, he saw a newsreel of the US boxer Jack Dempsey.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1406354,00.html (1088 words)

	Max Schmeling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schmeling debuted as a professional boxer in 1924, and he built a record of 42 wins, 4 losses and 3 draws, before fighting Jack Sharkey for the vacant world Heavyweight championship, in 1930.
		Schmeling himself was also affected; when Louis finally won the world Heavyweight crown in 1937, he said he would not consider himself a champion until he beat Schmeling in a rematch.
		In reality, Schmeling became quite unpopular among the Nazis after the embarrassing loss to the fl man, and was not used anymore in Nazi propaganda, which was a relief to him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Schmeling (1503 words)

	Boxing in Las Vegas: Max Schmeling: A Look Back.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Max Schmeling competed at the echelon of the heavyweight division in a tumultuous time in modern world history.
		Schmeling did not know it at the time, but this performance would be enough to book a shot at the vacant world heavyweight title upon the retirement of Gene Tunney.
		Schmeling and Louis became friends, and Max paid for and was a pallbearer at his friend’s funeral.
	www.boxinginlasvegas.com /Features2005/0205/schmeling.htm (1102 words)

	Joe Louis versus Max Schmeling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max Schmeling, on the other hand, was born in Germany, and he had become the first world Heavyweight champion to win the title by a disqualification, against Jack Sharkey, who also happened to be American.
		Schmeling was well known to American boxing fans, but Louis had built a reputation comparable to that of Mike Tyson fifty years later, and Schmeling was widely believed to be only a stepping stone in Louis' way towards the world Heavyweight title.
		Schmeling had studied Louis' style, and he claimed to have the key to victory on the days prior to the fight; fans thought that he was just trying to raise fan interest in the fight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Louis_versus_Max_Schmeling (1513 words)

	German Boxing Legend Max Schmeling (washingtonpost.com)
		Max Schmeling, 99, the former world heavyweight boxing champion from Germany whose two bouts with Joe Louis in the years leading up to World War II symbolized and ultimately debunked the Nazi's claim to racial superiority, died Feb. 2 at his home in Hollenstedt, Germany.
		Schmeling, who once fought for the German equivalent of $5 a fight, was considered over the hill when he knocked out Louis in the 12th round of their first bout.
		Schmeling, who denied he was an anti-Semite, later said that he was exploited by the propaganda machinery of the Nazi regime and explained how he once pleaded with Hitler to allow him to retain his Jewish manager, Joe Jacobs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A8-2005Feb4.html (1042 words)

	CNN.com - Boxing legend Schmeling dies at 99 - Feb 4, 2005
		Schmeling was buried in a ceremony attended by a small circle of friends.
		German Schmeling held the world title from 1930 to 1932 and in his later career was forced to fight against attempts by the emerging Nazi regime to champion him, and the resulting prejudices that came with it.
		Schmeling, who was born in September 1905 in Brandenburg, became the first heavyweight to win the world title on a foul.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SPORT/02/04/schmeling.death/index.html (545 words)

	Heavyweight History, Louis-Schmeling
		The rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling served as the pinnacle of Louis' career and is remembered as one of the major sports events of the 20th century.
		Schmeling later said it was an illegal kidney punch and that he never fully recovered from the blow.
		Schmeling enlisted in the German army as a paratrooper and was wounded in action in Crete in 1941.
	www.ibhof.com /ibhfhvy5.htm (840 words)

	Members Only : Michael Katz
		"Schmeling is down, Schmeling is down," intoned the great Clem McCarthy from ringside at Yankee Stadium during the 1939 rematch between heavyweight champion Joe Louis and the former champion who had handed him his only previous loss, Max Schmeling.
		Schmeling never wanted to represent Adolf Hitler and so-called Aryan supremacy; when Louis knocked him down four times in two or so minutes, the erstwhile hero of Hitler and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels was treated like a pariah.
		Schmeling continually pounded Louis with overhand rights that night and it was remarkable that the future boxing great managed to last until the 12th round.
	www.maxboxing.com /Katz/Katz0204a05.asp (558 words)

	Amazon.ca: Max Schmeling: An Autobiography: Books: George Von Der Lippe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The way Schmeling, who is generally agreed to have been an ardent adherent of Nazi racism, tells it, it was the Nazi propagandists who portrayed the fight as one between an archetypal Teutonic Aryan and an American representative of an inferior race.
		Schmeling was often entertained, along with his movie-star wife, by the Fuhrer.
		Schmeling is most interesting on the subject of Hitler and on the pressures to drop his Jewish manager.
	www.amazon.ca /Max-Schmeling-Autobiography-George-Lippe/dp/1566251087 (865 words)

	Max Schmeling \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Max Schmeling, Germany's former world heavyweight boxing champion who died on Wednesday aged 99, will forever be remembered for his re-match in 1938 with the American Joe Louis; it was fought out in New York against the backdrop of impending war, and became as much a political event as a boxing match.
		Schmeling later recalled that, while they watched a film of his first fight with Louis, the Führer slapped him on the leg each time the American was hit.
		In vain, Schmeling protested that this was "just another fight", emphasising that his American manager, Joe Jacobs, was Jewish, and repeatedly confirming that, if he won, he would return to New York to defend the title and not allow sport's greatest prize to be used as a propaganda weapon by the Nazis.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2005/02/05/db0502.xml (1315 words)

	IBHOF / Max Schmeling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ERHAPS BEST remembered in the ring for his two fights with Joe Louis, heavyweight champion Max Schmeling remains unjustly associated with Nazi Germany and was unfairly depicted as a villain in the United States.
		It took on political ramifications as Louis was cast in the role of representing America with Schmeling being projected as the symbol of Nazi Germany.
		Schmeling served as a German paratrooper during World War II and resumed his career when the war ended.
	www.ibhof.com /schmelin.htm (385 words)

	Max Schmeling, Joe Louis's Friend and Foe, Dies at 99
		Schmeling, who became the first fighter to beat Louis in their 1936 meeting, died on Wednesday in the German town of Hollenstedt and was buried today in Lower Saxony, German Boxing Association President Bodo Eckmann said in a phone interview.
		Schmeling's role in hiding the boys wasn't known until Henri Lewin revealed it at a dinner honoring the former champion in 1989.
		Schmeling was born at Klien-Luckow, Uckermark, Brandenburg, Germany, on Sept. 28, 1905.
	www.raoulwallenberg.net /?en/saviors/others/schmeling/2157.htm (808 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Boxing \| Heavyweight legend Schmeling dies
		Schmeling was buried on Friday next to his wife, Czech-born actress Anny Ondra, in Hollenstedt, near Hamburg, in a private ceremony.
		Schmeling lost his title to Sharkey in 1932 but came back to knock out the previously unbeaten Louis in the 12th round on 19 June, 1936, which the Nazi regime trumpeted as a sign of "Aryan supremacy".
		Schmeling came into the fight as a 10-1 underdog, and his victory is considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/boxing/4235901.stm (529 words)

	Boxing: Max Schmeling - Much More Than a Political Pawn
		Schmeling, however, transcended those labels because he was so much more than that, and he deserves to be remembered for what he was, and not what he was perceived as during those turbulent times.
		Schmeling's story began on September 28, 1905 when he was born in a small town in Bradenburg, the son of a ship navigator.
		Schmeling's left eye began to swell early in the fight, but he was always in it.
	www.ringsidereport.com /Newman252005.htm (2012 words)

	Boxing great Max Schmeling dies at 99: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
		Schmeling, who was cast as a symbol of Nazi Germany before World War II, died Wednesday at his home in Hollenstedt, Germany, according to his foundation in Hamburg.
		Although he was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1930 to 1932 and a prominent heavyweight in the 1930s, it was his bouts with Louis that became etched in the minds of sports fans: His sensational upset knockout of the American fighter in 1936, and his dramatic first-round knockout defeat by Louis in 1938.
		Schmeling, in film of the Yankee Stadium fight, can be seen cautiously looking for that instant when Louis would miss with a left hand, leaving the left side of his head unprotected.
	www.sun-sentinel.com /sports/nationworld/sns-schmeling-obit,0,6624286.story?coll=sns-sports-headlines (911 words)

	American Experience \| The Fight \| People & Events \| PBS
		Max Schmeling was born on September 28, 1905, in rural northeastern Germany, the son of a ship's navigator.
		Schmeling had figured that by defeating Louis he had earned a right to fight Jimmy Braddock for the title, but machinations behind the scenes and anti-Nazi protests in New York made the matchup unpalatable to the American audience.
		In the privation of post-war Germany, Schmeling and his wife did their best to scrape by, turning to farming, a failed return to the ring as a boxer, and then a brief career as a boxing referee.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/fight/peopleevents/p_schmeling.html (1519 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Max Schmeling, 1905-2005: German boxer fought Louis twice
		Max Schmeling raises his hands as referee Arthur Donovan counts out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their June 19, 1936, fight.
		Schmeling was buried yesterday next to his wife, Anny Ondra, in Hollenstedt at a private ceremony attended by a small circle of friends.
		Schmeling's extraordinary career will be remembered for his bouts with Louis, which produced a lasting bond between the boxers despite the charged atmosphere.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2002171619_boxing05.html (789 words)

	Film Review: "Joe and Max": Joe Louis in the Fights of His Life
		"Joe and Max," premiering on the Starz movie channel, March 9 at 8 p.m., is a better than decent attempt at telling the story of Louis's life as it intertwined with that of Max Schmeling, the German boxer with whom he fought two pivotal fights during his career.
		Schmeling and Louis battled during a tension-filled time during the 1930's when the United States and Germany were almost, but not yet, fighting each other in World War II.
		Schmeling became the toast of the country, which was slipping further into Nazi rule and stepping up persecution of Jews and political opposition.
	www.seeingblack.com /x031402/joelouis.shtml (560 words)

	Battlefront - Producers of fine metal and resin miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schmeling was originally popular in the United States, but was increasingly viewed as a Nazi symbol and the growing tension between the two countries.
		Schmeling says they kept telling him that he’d never see combat, and was prevented from participating in any training whatsoever.
		Schmeling’s name surfaced toward the end of the war, and was featured in Stars and Stripes in an issue from April of 1945.
	www.battlefront.co.nz /Article.asp?ArticleID=997 (789 words)

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