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'Luz' Long & Jesse Owens

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Olympic Games of Berlin 1936. After two failed attempts in Long Jump Jesse Owens is about to drop out of competition. German athlete Dr. Carl Ludwig Long, better known as 'Luz' Long gives Jesse the crucial hint. In the end Long wins the Silver Medal, Jesse Owens wins Gold, one of his four during the 1936 games. The friendship between Luz and Jesse endured prejudice, politics and ideologies. In WW2 Carl Ludwig „Luz“ Long served in the Wehrmacht and was killed in action on July 13, 1943 at San Pietro Clarenza/Sicily during Operation Husky. He's buried on the German military cemetery of Motta St. Anastasia.