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April 23, 2024
Video: UW professor on ‘The Boys in the Boat,’ Nazi Germany and the 1936 Olympics
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The film version of “The Boys in the Boat,” released on Dec. 25, was inspired by the University of Washington men’s rowing team that won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. It’s based on the 2013 book by Daniel James Brown. But there is more to the story than the improbable victory by UW student-athletes from…