It's not a monument to Moshe Weinberg that stands there on the first floor of the Jewish Museum, at least not a classic one. But it is a moving place of remembrance for the Israeli wrestling coach who became the first victim of the Palestinian terrorists on September 5, 1972: a cartoon drawing of the Olympic Stadium on the wall, in front of it only three stools and some copies of Nina Prader's graphic novel "The Wrestlers", which you can...
Apparently 17-year-old Norwegian Grung Thallang doesn't think much of the Olympic motto "One is everything". In the last few meters of the 1.7-kilometer cross-country run, he sprinted with his last strength and literally fell to the finish line after 5:53 minutes. A good time for his young age, much faster than that of an Indian starter, for whom the timer stopped after more than seven minutes and who ended up panting in the arms of two Japanese women. He too...
According to ARD, 2,000 US dollars were paid to one of the Olympic assassins who took part in the attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Games in 1972. Gunnar Dedio, the executive producer of the four-part documentary series ARD documentary "Death and Games" about the attacks on the Israeli team at the Olympic Games, the SZ confirmed the payment to Mohammed Safady, about which the Focus had reported.The documentary series, which will be broadcast at the end of...
ARD confirms that one of the Palestinian perpetrators of the Munich attack in 1972, who has his say in the documentary "Death and Games", received 2,000 US dollars. According to ARD, 2,000 US dollars were paid to one of the Olympic assassins who took part in the attack on the Israeli team at the Munich games. Mohammed Safady was in the four-part series that aired in September ARD documentary "Death and Games" been interviewed."Death and Games - Munich '72" is...
What else can one expect from a documentary theater evening about the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich? In the past few weeks, TV documentaries and long series of articles in the newspapers have provided every, apparently every, detail about the games, which began so happily and ended in terror. In the meantime, even after an agonizingly long time rumgeeiere the German government in the person of Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked for forgiveness, acknowledging the all-out police failures against the Palestinian terrorists,...
Opposites collide hard. At least that's what the documents collected by Regine Dura and Hans-Werner Kroesinger say. For example, there is an eyewitness report by an Israeli secret service agent who was present at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in 1972. It's a clear protocol, says Dura, which soberly describes the devastatingly unsuccessful liberation of the Israeli athletes from the violence of the Palestinian terrorists. And then there are the documents from the German authorities, which do not find any mistakes. Everything...
One of the Palestinians who carried out the attack in Munich in 1972 is said to have been in West Berlin 13 years later. The German security authorities knew about it, but the responsible police ignored the information.Of Roman Deininger and Uwe Ritzer, MunichThe police file 1389 is about five centimeters thick, a bundle of typed notes, transcripts of interrogations, telexes and photos. It is closed to the public until May 22, 2040. Why until this day? The most likely...
HomeMunichMunichhistory of MunichHistorical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:"It was the most beautiful Olympic Games ever destroyed"Sep 11, 2022 at 9:01 p.mOpen detailed viewFinally a rainbow: The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are over. (Photo: imago sport photo service)When the games in Munich end, an artificial rainbow appears in the sky. The ARD commentator speaks a sentence that sticks in the memory. The historical live blog about the 1972 Olympics in the gleanings.By Barbara Galaktionow and Lisa SonnabendlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackTo press50 years...
HomeMunichMunichhistory of MunichHistorical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:The athletes don't come with their heads hanging down, they come dancing and laughingSep 11, 2022 at 7:49 p.mOpen detailed viewThe athletes at the closing ceremony of the 1972 Olympic Games (Photo: imago sport photo service)The closing ceremony begins with a reduced program, instead of happy songs, Beethoven is played. Nevertheless, the athletes celebrate exuberantly - not everyone thinks that's appropriate. Follow the end of the 1972 games in the historical live...
HomeMunichMunichhistory of MunichHistorical live blog about the 1972 Olympics:Mistake? omissions? - The Munich police chief can't see any Sep 11, 2022 at 9:01 amOpen detailed viewBringer 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...
