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The Olympic torch is being welcomed this weekend in the UK as a symbol of thesporting spirit,uniting people around the world in peaceful competition.
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But the idea oflighting the torch at the ancient Olympian site in Greece and then running it throughdifferent countries has much darker origins.
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It was invented in its modern form by theorganizers of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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And it was planned with immense care by the Nazi leaders to project the image ofthe Third Reich as a modern
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economically dynamic state with growing international influence.The organizer of the 1936 Olympics, Carl Diem
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wanted an event linking the modern Olympics to the ancient.
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The idea chimed perfectly with the Nazi belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.Other countries on the relay route like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia would soonbe invaded by Germans equipped not with Krupp torches but with Krupp munitions.
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