NY Times · Apr 21, 2023
Germany Names Panel to Investigate 1972 Attack at Munich Olympics
The commission’s creation stems in part from an agreement made last year to reassess German failures in handling the attack by Palestinian militants, which killed 11 Israeli athletes.
A member of the Black September Palestinian militant group during the standoff at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972.Credit...Kurt Strumpf/Associated PressBERLIN — Germany named an international panel of experts on Friday to review the 1972 Munich Olympics attack by Palestinian militants that killed 11 Israeli athletes, completing the last step in a deal with the victims’ families to assess and apologize for the failures of the German authorities to prevent the bloody assault.