Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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“

Wo ist Jesse?”:

Dr. James LuValle, interview by George Hodak, Palo Alto, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

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Olympic Village: Arvo Vercamer and Jason Pipes, “The 1936 Olympic Games in Germany,”

www.feldgrau.com

(accessed July 19, 2006); Richard Mandell,

The Nazi Olympics

(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), pp. 88–92, 138; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

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Japanese feeding deer: “Sports Parade,”

Los Angeles Examiner

, July 30, 1936.

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Storks: Arvo Vercamer and Jason Pipes, “The 1936 Olympic Games in Germany,”

www.feldgrau.com

(accessed July 19, 2006).

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Owens pursued by fans: Dr. James LuValle, interview by George Hodak, Palo Alto, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

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Drive through Berlin: Mandell, pp. 139–43; Herbert H. Wildman, interviewed by George A. Hodak, Marina del Rey, Calif., October 1987, AAFLA.

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Gliders: Iris Cummings Critchell, telephone interview, September 29, 2005.

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Gypsies: “The Facade of Hospitality,” U.S. Holocaust Museum,

www.ushm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd062.htm

(accessed June 16, 2005).

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Doves: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Iris Cummings Critchell, telephone interview, September 29, 2005; Mandell, p. 145.

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Bulging eyes, Louie versus Finns: “Sport Shorts,” undated article in Zamperini scrapbook, NPN.

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German nationalism: Iris Cummings Critchell, telephone interview, September 29, 2005; Iris Cummings Critchell, interviewed by George A. Hodak, Claremont, Calif., May 1988, AAFLA.

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“

Don’t let them see me!”:

Iris Cummings Critchell, telephone interview, September 29, 2005.

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Qualifying round: “Owens in New Record,”

Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express

, August 4, 1936; “Zamperini Is In,”

Torrance Herald

, August 6, 1936.

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“tired as hell”: Louis Zamperini, Olympic diary, August 4, 1936, entry.

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