Munich Olympics Research Paper

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1972 munich Olympics
Billed as “the games of peace and joy”, the 1972 olympic games were the biggest and most expensive ever mounted. It was the largest amount of athletes to ever participate for their countires then any sporting event preceding it. (simon reeve 2011) west german officials had fought furiouslt to bring the games to munich. The officials has hoped the holding the event in germany would affirm Germanys rehabilitation as a civilized society (reeve.) they aimed to foreshadow the memories of wwII and the 1936 berlin Olympics where hitler when above and beyond to glorify nazi ideaology.
“the first thing you felt on arriving in munich was this utter determination of the germans, whether they be Olympic officials, …show more content…
(calahan 1995) book statless: a founding member of fatah wrote that “"Black September was not a terrorist organization, but was rather an auxiliary unit of the resistance movement, at a time when the latter was unable to fully realize its military and political potential. The members of the organization always denied any ties between their organization and Fatah or the PLO." However in a document relseased by the U.S state department in 1981 named “march 1973”, they seemed to confirm that fatah was indeed the parent organization to the black September group. Only days after the 1972 olympic games the group continued to carry out attacks on isreali officials. A letter bomb on the 19th of septmeber was delivered to Dr. Ami Schechori who was fatally killed after opening the letter he belieced to ve containing dtuch flower seeds he has ordered. Numerous other letter bombs eere discovered en route to America, Australia and Europe. The group ceased operations in September …show more content…
the members of black September barged into apartment one shooting wrestling coach moshe Weinberg through his cheek and demanded he lead them to more hostages. Weinberg lied to his kidnappers telling them that no Israelis were in apartment two before leading them to apartment three where they found 6 more hostages. Weinberg again attacked the gunman which allowed a hostage, Gad Tsobari, to escape via an underground parking garage. Weinberg was then shot dead. Yosseff romano, Weightlifter and surivior of the six day war, attacked one of the intruders but was subsequently shot and
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