On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...
and ceremonial incantations to countless German listeners. Widespread newspaper coverage called the "Action against the Un-German Spirit" a success. The Nazi war on "un-German" individual ...
Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration ... during the torch relay as it passed through the famed monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel, in May, 2024. Lebranchu was arrested in ...