The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September.

The Munich 1972 Olympic Games were an athletic festival held in Munich that took place August 26–September 11, 1972. The Games were marred by a terrorist attack in which Palestinian militants …

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.

Jul 16, 2025 · Explore the harrowing events of the Munich Massacre in 1972, a pivotal moment that changed Olympic security forever.

Organisationskomitee für die Spiele der XX. Olympiade München 1972. The München Olympics began beneath the warm summer sun of a Bavarian afternoon and ended in the cool autumn twilight of a …

4 days ago · It is now 50 years since Munich hosted the Summer Olympics. The buildings for this major event still leave their mark on the city today. Not a few consider the Olympic site to be Germany's …

The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as Die Heiteren Spiele—the “Happy Games.” West Germans hoped they would help rehabilitate their country in international eyes after the horrors of Nazism, and …

May 24, 2021 · Less than 30 years after the end of World War II, when approximately 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, Israel entered the Munich Olympics with its biggest-ever team of …

Eleven nations made their first Olympic appearance in Munich: Albania, Dahomey (now Benin), Gabon, North Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Swaziland, Togo, Upper Volta (now Burkina …

On 26th August 1972, the XXth Olympic Summer Games were opened with a ceremony in Munich. 80,000 viewers attended the opening ceremony in the Munich Olympic Stadium. Many more stood in …