The tragic hostage taking mourns the Munich Olympics in 1972

2023-10-03 12:30:19

In 1972, in the midst of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany organized the 20th Olympic Games in Munich. While the West German government wanted these “Games of Peace and Joy” to serve to forget the sad memory of the Olympic Games organized by Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1936, terror resurfaced on German soil. On September 5, 1972, a commando of eight Palestinians belonging to the Black September group infiltrated the Olympic village, killed two Israeli athletes and took nine others hostage. It was supposed to be the Olympics of Joy, according to their motto, but it turned out to be the Olympics of Horror. For Cambodia, the Munich Olympics would be the last before an absence of more than 20 years due to the war that was tearing the country apart.
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