TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiller,Kay
AU  - Young,Christopher
TI  - The 1972 Munich Olympics and the making of modern Germany
T2  - Weimar and now: German cultural criticism
SN  - 9780520947580
AV  - GV722 1972 .S35 2010eb
U1  - 796.48 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Olympic Games
KW  - (20th
KW  - 1972
KW  - Munich, Germany)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Germany
KW  - Munich
KW  - Athletes
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Terrorisme
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - Olympics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - terrorisme
KW  - Jeux olympiques d'été (20 ; 1972 ; Munich)
KW  - politique
KW  - Jeux olympiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index; 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
N2  - 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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