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Munich bids on Olympics as memorial fight continues

Jewish Journal January 12, 2011

Munich, Germany has thrown its hat into the ring to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, as widows of victims of the 1972 games massacre fight for an opening ceremonies memorial. Munich\’s 2018 Winter Olympics bid committee on Tuesday handed over its bid book to officials from the International Olympic Committee. If accepted it would be the first city to host both a winter and a summer games. Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were killed when Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group broke into their barracks in the Olympic vlllage of the Munich summer games in 1972 and held them hostage. During an unsuccessful rescue attempt, all of the hostages were killed.

VIDEO: Israeli Olympic athletes remembered

Jewish Journal August 5, 2008

Photo montages, vintage news footage, music (Enya.)

Munich massacre survivor still carries Olympic scars

Jewish Journal July 31, 2008

Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and four others escaped.

Judgment on ‘Munich’

Tom Tugend December 15, 2005

Although there are flashbacks to the massacre throughout the film, the focus shifts to a meeting between Prime Minister Golda Meir and her top military and intelligence leaders.

‘Munich’ — a Risky Move for Spielberg

Ivor Davis December 1, 2005

The billboards for Steven Spielberg\’s new film \”Munich,\” which opens Dec. 23, will soon be sprouting on buses, benches and boulevards around the nation. The image is simple and stark. A lone man sits gloomily in a dark, heavily draped hotel room, his body sparely illuminated by the light of a single window. His shoulders are hunched disconsolately and a pistol dangles from his hand. He seems very much alone.

Twenty Hours in Munich

Tom Tugend August 29, 2002

\nThe Germans, desperate to erase memories of the Nazi-tainted 1936 Olympics in Berlin, billed the 1972 Games as \”The Happy Olympics.\” By the time the international sportsfest ended, it went down in the history books as \”The Munich Massacre.\”