The 2024 Paris Olympics begin this weekend amid the global fallout over the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas and the Gaza war.
A member of the Black September terrorist group that seized Israeli Olympic athletes at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on a balcony on Sept. 5, 1972.
The attack on Israeli athletes in Munich more than half a century ago sparked an international crisis. That crisis continues to reverberate, with Germany agreeing to pay 28 million euros to the families of 11. For decades, the families contended that Germany had not done enough to protect Israeli athletes.Munich had sought the games in a bid to change Germany’s global reputation.
Black September leaders had hoped to use the Olympics’ international viewership — the same television audience that West Germany sought itself — to bring global attention to the Germany attempted to rescue the kidnapped Israelis for 20 hours but was repeatedly thwarted. As negotiations stalled, the Black September members demanded an airplane that night to fly the nine hostages to an Arab nation.German officials tried to trap the extremists. They planned to send five snipers to a German air force base outside Munich and staff the Lufthansa airplane with police officers, charged with defeating the group and rescuing the hostages.
The 1972 Olympics have remained a painful memory for many people over the last 52 years, as shown by reactions last week to an Adidas promotional campaign.The sportswear and sneakers company launched advertisements to re-promote its SL72 shoes — a pair of trainers first introduced to coincide with the 1972 games. But the campaign faced almost immediate backlash as consumers and brand ambassadors alike accused Adidas of highlighting the violence that racked the Munich Olympics.
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