After setting a women's high jump record
in 1938, a bombshell was uncovered- Ratjen was a man.
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In the 1936 Berlin Olympics,
a German woman named Dora Ratjen came fourth in the women's high jump.
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Horst Ratjen, his real name, would later claim
the Nazis ordered him to pose as a woman“for the sake of the honor and glory of Germany.”.
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Fact 641: In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the person who finished in fourth place in the women's high jump was actually a man,
German athlete Heinrich Ratjen.