In September of 1972, I was a senior in high school, and my mother, sister and I accompanied my dad to the 1972 Munich Olympics. The organizing committee was trying to help erase the memory of the ...

Exactly 50 years ago today, West German President Gustav Heinemann opened the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich’s Olympic Stadium. To mark the anniversary, the Olympic Tower in Munich has beet lit up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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: ...

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.

For me, the moment I heard about the hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics is as indelibly imprinted on my memory as the moment I heard the news about the Twin Towers. In September 1972 my ...

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 ...

During the Munich Olympics in 1972, eight members of the Palestine Liberation Organization splinter group Black September invaded the Israeli team’s area of the Olympic village, according to Reuters.

The 1972 Munich Olympics kicked off under the banner of hope and peace, hosted by a country eager to turn the page nearly three decades after the fall of the Nazi regime. Instead, those Summer Games ...