Olympia Munich 72: Historical Liveblog – Munich

Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:Genscher offers to be an exchange hostage

Mark Spitz USA;  Olympics 1972

The seven gold medals of record swimmer Mark Spitz no longer play a major role in the press conference on the morning of the hostage-taking.

(Photo: imago/press photo Baumann)

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).

By Barbara Galaktionow and Lisa Sonnabend

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