История Олимпииского Огня..

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Никогда не знaл откуда пошла традиция естафеты Олимпииского Огня, пока не попалась на глаза заметка из "Немецкои Волны"

Although Greece was the birthplace of the Olympics, the torch relay was a Nazi idea first used for the Berlin games.
While that sounds eminently noble and true to the Olympic ideal, the tradition has much more dubious origins at the 1936 Berlin games. Carl Diem, a functionary in Hitler's Nazi sporting apparatus, is widely considered the creator of the torch relay. Diem supposedly was inspired by drawings of torch bearers on an antique vase, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry had a strong role supporting the project.
From Olympia, the torch was carried through the Greek cities of Athens, Delphi and Thessaloniki. Then it traveled to Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Dresden before making its way to Berlin. Siegfried Eifrig, now 94, carried the flame on August 1, 1936 into the heart of the Nazi capital..... The gathering of young people was organized under the auspices of the Hitler Youth and Goebbels closed the even with the words: "Holy flame glow, glow and never be extinguished