[2][3] At the 1924 Summer Olympics, the Blitz brothers were still part of the Belgian water polo squad, which won another silver medal.

However, he had little luck at the 1928 Games, as his water polo team finished fifth, and he was eliminated in the heats of his swimming events.

Eight years later, at the 1936 Summer Berlin Games, he won his last Olympic medal, a bronze in water polo.

[2][4][5] The Nazi regime had passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws the prior Fall which stripped German Jews of citizenship, opportunities to receive a public education, and access to many professions and public facilities.

Jewish businesses had been boycotted, and Jews could not serve in the legal profession, the civil service, teach in secondary schools or universities or vote or hold public office.