The lighting of the Olympic cauldron on the River Seine on July 26 will mark the beginning of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and the end of a two-and-a-half-month torch relay designed to ignite enthusiasm across France for the games.
However, this bright point in the countdown to the Olympics has a dark origin story. It dates back to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, at a time when dictator Adolf Hitler was trying to boost the image of the Nazi Party.
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