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TIL the Olympic torch relay was first used in 1936 Berlin. Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as a way to illustrate that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the Third Reich. The torch relay idea was originally devised by Jewish archaeologist & sports official, Alfred Schiff.

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