Codice albumGBB-F-006914

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006914-0000

1936, BERLIN, GERMANY: The celebrated german DORA RATJEN aka Heinrich or Hermann or Horst Ratjen (1918 2008). Born 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. 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. He later took over the running of his parents' bar, and refused requests for interviews before his death in 2008

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