Was the Torch Relay invented by the Nazis?

Question: Was the Torch Relay invented by the Nazis!?

Was the Torch Relay (Olympic Flame) invented by the Nazis!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Acording to the olympic web site, yes!.

The first Olympic torch relay was organised for the 1936 Games in Berlin!.

The Olympic Flame, however, dates back to the origianl olympics!.

The ancient Greeks considered fire to be a divine element and they maintained perpetual fires in front of their principal temples!. This was the case in the sanctuary of Olympia where the Ancient Olympic Games took place!. A flame burned permanently on the altar of the goddess Hestia, situated in the Prytaneum (building used for the large banquets held in honour of the athletes at the end of the Games), and such fires were also lit on the altars of Zeus and Hera, the temple in front of which the Olympic flame is lit today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No and Yes

No, the Olympic flame was not invented by the Germans!.
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Yes, the flame was re-implemented by the Germans (Nazis) in 1936 Berlin Olympics and the torch relay was started by the German in 1936!.

The Olympic flame is one of the most instantly recognisable symbols of the Games!. Its origins date back to the ancient Games, from 776BC to 393AD, when a sacred flame burned at the altar of Zeus!. It was not a part of the early modern Olympics!.

For the ancient Greeks, fire had divine connotations — it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus!. Therefore, fire was also present at many of the sanctuaries in Olympia, Greece!. A fire permanently burned on the altar of Hestia in Olympia, Greece!. During the Olympic Games, which honored Zeus, additional fires were lit at his temple and that of his wife, Hera!. The modern Olympic flame is ignited at the site where the temple of Hera used to stand!.

The modern convention of moving the Olympic Flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany!.

The relay, captured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, was part of the Nazi propaganda machine’s attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler’s regime!. Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

what would make you think this!?
*face palm*Www@QuestionHome@Com