Posted on 08/29/2012 8:29:08 AM PDT by Nachum
Germany did not even make a “minimal effort” to save the lives of 11 Israeli athletes massacred by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, according to Israeli government archives that were opened up after 40 years.
The documents include statement by then-Mossad director Tzvi Zamir, who returned from Munich after the massacre and told Prime Minister Golda Meir and senior ministers of apathy and lack of professionalism displayed by German authorities.
“They didn't make even a minimal effort to save lives, didn't take even a minimal risk to save people, neither theirs nor ours, Zamir said, adding that Germany’s main interest was for the Olympics to continue.
After 40 years, the International Olympic Committee still refuses to hold a ceremony of one-minute of silence at the opening of the Games to remember the murder victims.
The documents from the archives were translated into English and sent to Germany.
Zamir said that Germany made little effort to catch the terrorists or even determine how many there were as they left the Olympic Village after the massacre.
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Pferd schiess... ;>)
They might have been concerned by the 'image' of large numbers of uniformed armed police, but the sure as hell had plainclothes cops of state police in the surrounds. Remember that the East Germans were a daily threatening presence and I don't recall a global cease fire by terrorists being in effect. And as far as uniforms threatening the German image you've obviously never seen the German Red Cross uniforms of that period, nicely cut light grey cadet type uniforms with billed caps. In 1968 when I first saw them I asked my German host which police unit they were in. He laughed as he told me.
No friend, apologies don't work. They botched the job from beginning to end, and the real reasons have yet to be known because the living still have to fear their ties to the Stasi being exposed to this day. The true extent of Stasi and Soviet penetration is yet to be uncovered if ever.
Forgive me for starting at the bottom of your post, but yes, that is something of a self-styled byword even today. Munich: The Largest Village on Earth. Google that term and you'll find numerous hits. I spent a few years there and that's how they like to present themselves.
No point in reiterating the RAF history. Wikipedia has a lengthy article on that topic. The timeline at least (if you distrust Wikipedia on politics) is accurate.
In any case, a terrorist attack on Olympic Games had at that time no precedent. It was as unexpected as Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition. The RAF attacked industrialists, politicians, bankers etc. - but not sporting venues. And it was not the RAF, of course, that did carry out that attack.
No doubt it turned out to be a major f*ck-up by the local cops, and then the German government in the aftermath; that was the basis of my 'hindsight' comment. I have no interest in, or intent of, revising history. Nor of offending anyone on this topic.
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