Munich Olympics disaster in 1972

The Munich games in 1972 were the first organised in Germany nearly three decades after the Second World War. The Germans wanted a pacifist event, unlike the Berlin Olympics in 1936 which were held under Nazi banners. The murder in Munich of 11 Israeli athletes condemned the pacifist ideal to failure. The host country's responses were a list of failures.

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