The inaugural Olympic torch relay at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was part of the Nazis’ powerful propaganda push behind the games. More than 3,000 runners—including Austrian Jew Eric Frisch—carried torches from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin. “I ran approximately at midnight in a corn field,” Eric recalled. “It was a little windy and the flame started to jiggle … God forbid that darn thing goes out while I’m running it, they’ll say a Jew did that on purpose.” Artifacts shown in the video were donate