Historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:Thousands of people receive a special flight in Tel Aviv
Mourning for those murdered when the corpses arrive in Israel: The death of the Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hurts the whole country.
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The plane carrying the bodies of the killed Israelis and their surviving teammates lands at Lod Airport. People hug each other, many cry. A whole country mourns. 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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