Despite its apolitical ideals, the Olympic Games have historically drawn many a political cause to its global stage. The 1972 Munich Summer Olympics will be most remembered not for its athletic ...

Family members of the Munich 1972 Olympic attack victims “described the extent of the cruelty” in interviews for “Munich 1972 & Beyond,” an upcoming documentary on the massacre, according to The New ...

Today's shooting took place not far from where the Munich massacre took place. — -- A shooting at a shopping mall in Munich has many recalling a previous incident in the German city more than 40 ...

Kay Schiller's and Christopher Young’s history of the Munich Olympics in 1972 is a study of work undone. Even the most successful large sporting events are ephemeral compared to the preparatory labors ...

Families of Israeli athletes who were killed at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games are not happy with the German Government’s compensation offers and are planning to boycott a ceremony marking the 50 th ...

MUNICH -- Look directly overhead on the U-Bahn subway system, and there’s no translation necessary. The eighth stop on the U3 train is labeled Olympiazentrum, adorned by five gray interlocking rings.

To mark the anniversary, the Olympic Tower in Munich has beet lit up in the colour scheme of the 1972 Olympics. A terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Olympic Village during the second week of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geoffrey Mason was a budding TV producer eager for one of the biggest assignments of his career: ...

Thursday was the 52nd anniversary of the 1972 Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by a Palestinian terror group. Police shot and killed a ...

Forty years ago, on September 5-6, 1972, the world was stunned as Palestinian gunmen took Israeli team members and coaches hostage at the Summer Olympics in Munich in a bid to secure the release of ...

The 1972 Munich Olympics massacre scarred Jewish history. Now, with Israeli athletes facing death threats ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, it’s clear little has changed. The 1972 Munich Olympic Games ...

It was ridiculously easy to get into the Munich Olympic athletes’ village in 1972, even after the murderous incursion by Black September guerrillas which resulted in the deaths of 11 Israelis, a ...