Tag: Olympic Games 1972
New photo book on the “Olympiapark Munich” by Ines Jenewein – Munich
50 years of the Olympic Games in Munich – this year the topic motivated many publishers to bring books on the subject onto the market. Out of the multitude of…
Olympic assassination attempt in 1972: mystery about document number I 37430/7
To this day, the circumstances of the 1972 Olympic assassination have not been clarified. Now three scientists find copies of the letter of confession and the list of names. This…
Munich: How the forerunner of the internet came about for the 1972 Olympics – Munich
At the time when computing systems were still huge like cupboards, data was stored on large tapes and Siemens sold end devices to the USA, hundreds of computer experts were…
Olympic assassination 72: Spaenle demands higher compensation for victims – Munich
The Bavarian anti-Semitism commissioner Ludwig Spaenle (CSU) starts an initiative in the Bavarian state parliament in the fight for higher compensation for the survivors of the victims of the Olympic…
World Politics 1972: Nixon in China, Bombs in Vietnam – Munich
The year 1972 proved to be generous in the question of the calculation of time and the chronological order. It was ITU-R TF.460-6, an International Telecommunication Union directive, that introduced…
1972 Olympics in Munich: The architecture of the future – Munich
In 1972, the games became a turbocharger for Munich’s urban development. Also because there was not enough time for planning the tried and tested, there were so many innovations in…
Olympic assassination 1972: Help from a neo-Nazi – Munich
Of Roman Deininger and Uwe Ritzer A call to Willi Voss in a small town near Hanover. It took a while to get him on the phone – a man…
Regensburg: Exhibition on Bavaria and Olympia 1896-2022 – Bavaria
It’s not often that an athlete offers such moving insights into the misery and nastiness of modern sport as former judo fighter Paul Barth, 76, chatted up Thursday at the…
Olympia 72: thumb and bird brought the games to Munich – Munich
Munich’s Lord Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel had no idea what was to come when the door to his office opened on October 28, 1965 and a guest entered the room whom…
Munich: Exhibition on the architecture of the 1972 Olympics – culture
An exhibition shows how daring, courageous and groundbreakingly modern the plans for the Olympic Park for the 1972 games were. Of Laura Weissmuller The future has landed. In bright yellow…