Codice albumGBB-F-006813

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006813-0000

1935, GERMANY: The jewish long jump champion german GRETEL BERGMANN LAMBERT (born in Laupheim, 12 april 1914), rejcteted to 1936 Berlin Olympic Games for his religion, substituted at last time with DORA RATJEN aka Heinrich or Hermann or Horst Ratjen (1918 2008), resulted in 1938 a man dressed like a woman. Dora Ratjen was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later discovered to be male in 1938. The athlete was arrested, and sent to Hohenlychen sports sanatorium for further tests. The gold medal won by Ratjen in Vienna 1938 was returned and his name expunged from the records. Dora, now Heinrich Ratjen, who later called himself Heinz, was issued with new ID and work papers and taken to Hanover by the Reichsarbeitsdienst as a working man. In 1937 Gretel Bergmann emigrated to the USA settling in New York where she married Bruno Lambert, a doctor. That year, she won the U.S. women's high jump and shotput championships and in 1938 she again won the high jump. Her sports career ended after the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 she received United States citizenship

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