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The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage.
May 24, 2021 · The Munich Massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.
Aug 26, 1972 · Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
Munich, West Germany, 1972. Steve Prefontaine. American runner Steve Prefontaine (right) leading the men's 5,000-meter event at the 1972 Munich Olympics; he finished in fourth place. (more) Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games.
“The Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 stand for the new Germany of the post-war period,” said IOC President Thomas Bach at a recent event celebrating the 50 th anniversary of the Games. “The architecture and conception of these Games reflected the spirit of openness, frankness and joie de vivre down to the smallest detail.
Feb 10, 2019 · History of the Olympics. Empty seats at the Olympic Park in Munich. The 1972 Olympic Games will probably be best remembered for the murder of eleven Israeli Olympians. On September 5, a day before the Games were to begin, eight Palestinian terrorists entered the Olympic Village and seized eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team.
The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime, and the most recent Olympics to be held in the country.
