jensked
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They didn't just host it, IIRC one of Hitlers subordinates came up with the idea of running the damn torch in the first place.
Correct.
The relay of the flame from Greece to the site of the modern games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem, with the support of Joseph Goebbels, at the controversial Berlin Olympics as a means to promote Nazi ideology.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame