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Joseph Louis Barrow was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Brown Bomber", Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all
Louis in 1941
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling in 1936
Louis in 1937
Louis in the Army
Max Schmeling
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Maximilian "Max" Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultu
Joe Louis
…United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. Born on May 13, 1914, in rural Chambers County, Alabama—in a ramshackle dwelling on Bell Chapel Road, located about 1 mile (2 kilometres) off…
Schmeling in March 1930
Max Schmeling on the cover of TIME Magazine. June 24, 1929
Max Schmeling with his mother Amanda Schmeling (née Fuchs) in 1931
Wedding of Schmeling and Czech actress Anny Ondra in 1933. The couple remained married until Ondra's death in 1987.