Fritz Schilgen lights Olympic torch at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, 1936

During the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Berlin, aka Games of the XI Olympiad, crowds watch as torchbearer Fritz Schilgen is seen carrying the Olympic torch up the stairs of the Olympic Stadium. Followed by lifting his arm up towards the masses. Germany, 1936. Fritz Schilgen, a three-time 1500m champion, lit the Olympic flame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Schilgen was the final runner in the torch relay, which began in Olympia, Greece on July 20, 1936 and ended at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on August 1, 1936.