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The Dark Origins of the Olympic Torch

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Most of us imagine the Olympic torch ceremony as an ancient Greek tradition representing Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus to bring to the humans. But did you know that the relay ceremony was reimagined and instituted by the Nazis as a form of nationalist propaganda? The current tradition of an Olympic torch relay, started during the Olympics of 1936 hosted in Berlin, Germany by the Nazi regime.

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