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Post-card from MAX SCHMELING - original, personal signed by this german box-legend !!! - died in year 2005 - this card is really gone in the post ! - was written to Mr. Armin Friedrich in Königsberg/Preussen in year 1938 - with 6 Pfennig-stamp and very clear postmark (swastika-festooned) with the words: "Jeder Deutsche trägt das Zeichen des wehrhaften Geistes", I try to translate: "Any German is wearing the sign of the defensible mind" --- sorry, if I have some faults in the text--- Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling ( September 28 , 1905 - February 2 , 2005 ) was a German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their racial and national associations. Despite his supposed associations with nazism , used for propaganda to smear him as a Nazi villain, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish [1] children in 1938. He remains a sporting legend in Germany today, and he also helped his friend Joe Louis later in life. Biography Early years and Jack Sharkey Schmeling debuted as a professional boxer in 1924 , and he built a record of 42 wins, 4 losses and 3 draws, before fighting Jack Sharkey for the vacant world Heavyweight championship, in 1930 . In between his debut and the championship fight, he fought a two-round exhibition with world Heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey (who he strongly resembled), in 1925 , at Cologne . In round 4, Sharkey hit Schmeling with a low blow so severe that Schmeling could not continue. Thus, Schmeling won the world title on a disqualification . He became the first Heavyweight world champion to win the title on a disqualification, and to this day remains the only one to have won it that way. In 1931 , he made a defense, knocking out Young Stribling in 15 rounds at Cleveland , and in 1932 , he and Sharkey had a rematch. After 15 rounds, Sharkey was declared the winner on points (a very controversial split decision), and Schmeling lost his title. This decision led to Joe Jacobs, his manager (see below), shouting in protest a line that since has become famous: "We was robbed!" Despite efforts to make a third fight happen, the rubber match between Schmeling and Sharkey never took place. Joe Louis In 1936, the situation in Germany had changed. Schmeling came over to New York to face the up-and-coming African American boxer Joe Louis , who was undefeated and considered unbeatable. Upon his arrival, Schmeling claimed that he had found a flaw in Louis' style, observing the way in which he dropped his guard after throwing a punch. He surprised the boxing world by handing Louis his first defeat, dropping him in round four and knocking him out in the 12th. Schmeling returned to Germany on the Hindenburg as a hero. Louis and his mainly black supporters were devastated by the defeat. Schmeling himself was also affected; when Louis finally won the world Heavyweight crown in 1937, he said he would not consider himself a champion until he beat Schmeling in a rematch. The rematch came, at Yankee Stadium , on June 22 , 1938 , with Louis defending his crown. By then, a second world war was clearly looming on the horizon, and the fight was viewed worldwide as symbolic battle for superiority between two likely adversaries. In American pre-fight publicity, Schmeling was cast as the Nazi warrior, while Louis was portrayed as a defender of American ideals. The fight was broadcast by radio all over the United States and Europe (in 2005 it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress). Some accounts claim that after Louis dropped Schmeling for the first time in the first round Joseph Goebbels ordered that the broadcast of the fight to Germany be cut off, so Germans wouldn't find out what happened until later on. However, German sports writer with the Associated Press, Roy Kammerer , based in Berlin wrote in 2005 : "...
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