From the BBC:
“Munich Olympics massacre
compensation deal struck”
(The hostage situation ended in a
bungled raid by German authorities)
Germany has agreed a compensation deal with the relatives of Israelis killed during the 1972 Munich Olympics. Eleven Israeli athletes were killed after being taken hostage by members of a Palestinian militant group. The €28m (£24m) deal was struck days before the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.Families earlier this month threatened to boycott commemorations of the tragedy, saying the amount they were offered was too low. Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed the deal, calling it was an "important step by the German government". The Munich massacre on 5 September 1972 is one of the darkest chapters in Olympic history. Members of the Israeli team were taken hostage inside the Olympic village by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September group. Two were shot dead almost immediately, while the others were killed during a gun battle with West German police at a nearby airfield, as the militants tried to take them out of the country. In a joint statement, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Mr Herzog said they were "happy and relieved" that an agreement on historical clarification had been reached. Germany has also said it will declassify documents related to the hostage-taking and the botched rescue operation. For many years, the victims' families have blamed German authorities for not doing enough to protect athletes and failing to be transparent about its security shortfalls.
^ The West German Government, the
West German Military, the West German Police and the vast majority of West
Germans in 1972 supported the
Palestinian Terrorists over the murdered Israelis - it was only 27 years after
the Holocaust and the murder of 6 Million Jews by the Germans (and Nazis were
still openly allowed in every aspect of West German Society from the top-down.)
The thought back then was
"What's another dead Jew on German soil?" or "They (the
Terrorists) are just finishing what we (the Germans) started."
50 years later and the Germans
have finally started to make up for their past mistake - with regards to not
trying to save the Israeli Olympic Team, for letting the 2 Palestinian
Terrorists that survived to go free a month later, etc. ^
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