Olympia Munich 72: Historical Liveblog – Munich

Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:Mistake? omissions? – The Munich police chief can’t see any

Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics: Bringer of the bad news: Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber (middle), Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Dietrich Genscher (left) and Bavarian Minister of the Interior Bruno Merk (right) at the press conference the night after the attack.

Bringer of the bad news: Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber (middle), Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Dietrich Genscher (left) and Bavaria’s Minister of the Interior Bruno Merk (right) at the press conference the night after the attack.

(Photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Manfred Schreiber justifies the actions of the police during the assassination and uses interesting arithmetic games. 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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