Few symbols of sport can reflect the values of good and evil as well as this extraordinarily rare Olympic torch from the Berlin Olympics of 1936. As Hitler attempted to turn the Games into a propaganda exercise in a show of Aryan supremacy ultimately blunted by an African-American named Jesse Owens, the flame of this torch burned brightly. Engraved with "Fackel-Staffel-Lauf, Olympia-Berlin 1936" and European cities such as Belgrade, Budapest, Prague and Dresden, the torch was designed by Carl Diem and made by the Krupp Factory, which would soon be put to work making bombs. Inner ring is 5" in circumference and 10 3/4" high from base to its disk-like top that includes the engraved "Komitee fur de Olypiade Berlin 1936." EX condition with no tarnish or soiling. A sad, but important, reminder that sports are often more than merely games.