It would be fifty years ago this past week....that the 1972 Olympics opened in Munich.
Last night, the German government announced that it was funding a 'victim-fund' for Israel folks who were in some ways of the terror attack that occurred.
Amount? 28 million Euro.
Fifty years later? Well....yeah.
No data but I would suggest that more than half of the participants are passed on by this point.
Front-page news? I'd say it's on page two or three of most German newspapers.
How big a deal was the attack, on the minds of Germans? For roughly a week, it ran as absolute number one news, and just about everyone over the age of fifteen at the time....have a clear memory of the incident. If you mentioned it today to folks in the 18 to 30 age group...I doubt if you could find more than a quarter of them remember 'something' of what happened.
The terror incident being connected to the German Red Army? Yes. No one much argues over that point, and if you get into a discussion....a few people will ask if the East German Stassi (Secret Police) might have engaged in planning for this.
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