The Olympic torch’s shadowy past: Nazi Germany
April 13th, 2008 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »
The idea of lighting the torch at the ancient Olympian site in Greece and then running it through different countries has much darker origins. It was invented in its modern form by the organisers of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. And it was planned with immense care by the Nazi leadership to project the image of the Third Reich as a modern, economically dynamic state with growing international influence.
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