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Thread #110203   Message #2316195
Posted By: Wolfgang
15-Apr-08 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: Olympic Flame
Subject: RE: Olympic Flame
I'd be surprised if anyone in the 1930s tried to protest Nazism by intercepting the relay on its relatively short trip from Greece to Berlin. (PoppaGator)

This may surprise you:
In 1936, the Youth organisation of the Communist party of Greece called all members to extinguish the flame as a sign of protest. They even promised a prize to the first successful protester without success. There have been protests and demonstration also in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. In Prague, the flame was actually extinguished by protesters for a short time.

Wolfgang