With the Olympic trials coming to Eugene and all the attention on protests of the Chinese torch run, it’s worth it to ask, who came up with this Olympic torch thing anyway? The ancient Greeks? Wrong. Here’s a hint:

Notice the swastikas and the sieg heil salutes? That’s right, it was the Nazis who first came up with the idea of an Olympic torch run, as shown in this infamous propaganda film.

No way you say? Well it’s right here in the New York Times and here on the “official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games.”

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