kate
Baton Rouge
A story about this — 45 weeks ago
Wow. A really captivating glimpse at these infamous events (to someone born nearly a decade later).
While it does not go much into the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, in my opinion it does do a good job of showing what the atmosphere was like at the ‘72 Olympics, how lax the security was, how unprepared the German police were to respond, and how ridiculous it was for the Games to be allowed to continue while this hostage crisis was underway.
The following clip of Press secretary Conrad Ahlers during the confusion following the arrival of the terrorists & hostages at the airport absolutely made my jaw drop: “I’m very glad that, as far as we can see now, this police action was successful. Of course it’s an unfortunate interruption of the Olympic Games, but, I mean, if all that comes out as we hope it will come out, or has come out, I think it will be forgotten after a few weeks.”
Considering that two Israeli team members had already been killed in the Olympic Village, I’m not sure how that would have been possible.






