The 1972 Munich Olympics and the making of modern Germany / Kay Schiller and Christopher Young.

By:

Schiller, Kay

Contributor(s):

Young, Christopher, 1967-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520947580
0520947584

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

796.48 22

LOC classification:

GV722 1972 .S35 2010eb

Other classification:

NQ 6085

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Urban, State, and National Capital: Buying, Paying for, and Selling the Games; 3. The Legacy of Berlin 1936 and the German Past: Problems and Possibilities; 4. Germany on the Drawing Board: Architecture, Design, and Ceremony; 5. After "1968": 1972 and the Youth of the World; 6. East versus West: German-German Sporting Tensions from Hallstein to Ostpolitik; 7. The End of the Games: Germany, the Middle East, and the Terrorist Attack; 8. Conclusion: Olympic Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I.

Summary: 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 these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chroni.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.

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 these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chroni.