Rings and torch were Hitler's creations, not Greeks
Sunday August 15 2004 00:00 IST
AP/ATHENS:
The most beloved emblems of the Modern Olympics have a decidedly dark past.
The torch relay, which culminated in Friday's ceremonial lighting of the Flame at the Olympic Stadium, was a creation of Adolf Hitler, who tried to turn the 1936 Berlin Games into a celebration of the Third Reich.
And it was Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine that popularised the five interlocking rings as the symbol of the Games.
Today, both are universally recognised icons of the Olympics. But historians say neither had much, if anything, to do with the Games born centuries ago in ancient Olympia.
"The torch relay is so ingrained in the modern choreography that most people today assume it was a revival of a Pagan tradition - unaware that it was actually concocted for Hitler's Games in Berlin," author Tony Perrottet writes in a new book, The Naked Olympics.
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