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Author Schiller, Kay.

Title The 1972 Munich Olympics and the making of modern Germany / Kay Schiller and Christopher Young
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : illustrations
Series Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 42
Weimar and now ; 42.
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
Analysis Athletes Violence against Germany Munich
Terrorism Germany Munich
terrorisme Jeux olympiques d'été (20 ; 1972 ; Munich)
politique Jeux olympiques Allemagne 1972
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Olympic Games (20th : 1972 : Munich, Germany) -- History
Olympic Games fast
Subject Terrorism -- Germany -- Munich
Athletes -- Violence against -- Germany -- Munich
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Olympics.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
Politics and government
Terrorism
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054638
Subject Germany
Germany -- Munich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Young, Christopher, 1967-
LC no. 2010004934
ISBN 9780520947580
0520947584