His relay began at Unter den Linden and made its way to Olympic stadium in Berlin, where he lit two urns which burned until the end of the summer games.

[2]Several years after the Olympic Games, Eifrig was placed into the Wehrmacht (the German Army), where he fought in North African Campaign.

He rebuilt his former team, Sports Club Charlottenburg, and became a key figure in the rebirth of the state bank, Berliner Sparkasse.

[4] The torch which Eifrig bore in the 1936 Summer Olympics was buried with other mementoes of his athletic youth in a suitcase under a bowling lane.

Secret from the turbulent times in Berlin, Eifrig later returned to reclaim his relic with its remaining magnesium candle, which he placed on his livingroom mantle.

He saw China's 2008 plan to carry the torch across the summit of Mount Everest as a "pointless gesture that makes a nonsense of the relay as an athletic challenge."