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