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The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (Weimer and Now : German Cultural Criticism)

By Chris Young , Kay Schiller

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0520262131, 9780520262133, 9780520947580, 0520947584
LCC
GV722 1972 .S35 2010
Open Library ID
OL24069042M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4035734 bytes)
Series
Weimar and now, 42
Edition
1
Pages
366\366
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.

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