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The Olympic torch relay and "carrying the Olympic flame" was created by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Olympics for propaganda purposes. Post-WW2, was there any consideration or talk of stopping the ritual (or even controversy) due to its origins?

by /u/Darabo in /r/AskHistorians

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