Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:“Munich threatens to become a symbol of callousness”
Everything as before the assassination: The Olympics simply go on and GDR athlete Renate Stecher runs away from everyone again.
(Photo: imago sport photo service)
The athletes are cheering again after success, the spectators are clapping – just like before the attack. The New York Times considers this indecent. Follow the events of the 1972 Olympics in the historical live blog.
By Barbara Galaktionow and Lisa Sonnabend
50 years ago, Munich was all about the Olympics. The city shows the world a cheerful face – until the attack by Palestinian assassins on the Israeli team of light-heartedness on September 5th put an abrupt end to it. The SZ documents the events surrounding the games between August 25 and September 11, 1972. The texts are based on conversations with contemporary witnesses, literature, documentation, film recordings and the evaluation of numerous newspaper articles from the SZ archive (here is an overview of the contemporary witnesses and sources).
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