The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany: Volume 42
(Part of the Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520262158
ISBN13:9780520262157
Release Date:August 2010
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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