According to the “Memoir of Siegfried Eifrig” and “The Olympic Flame,” what was the purpose of carrying the Olympic torch from Greece to Germany prior to the Olympic games of 1936? Use at least one detail from BOTH passages to support your answer. pls help meh!!!

Most children brought up in brooklyn before the first world war remember day there with a peculiartenderness. it was the day children went around "ragamuffin" or "slamming gates," wearing costumes topped off by apenny maskbased on this excerpt, what is the author's purpose in writing?