Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:Romanian volleyball player settles in the Federal Republic
Years after the escape: In 1978, volleyball player Stelian Moculescu played for TSV 1860 Munich.
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Stefan Moculescu uses the last day of the games – and flees from the quarters of the Romanian Olympic team. A German coach helps him, but is late. Follow the 1972 games 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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