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  • Essay / 1972 Munich Olympics: Identifying racist violence and...

    It's 1972 and people are ready for the Summer Olympics. Unfortunately for enthusiastic sports spectators, the 1972 Munich Olympics have a much more tragic history. We don't talk about broken records or international competitiveness, we rather remember the Munich Games because of the hostage taking. A Palestinian-trained group called the Black September terrorists captured nine Israeli Olympic athletes. Jim McKay, one of the Olympic sports commentators at the Games, said: “The Munich tragedy was the most important and terrible event of my career. » It is really that of Munich which tarnishes the Olympic Games. Even today, the impact and repercussions of gaming can be felt not only with the heightened security protocol, but also with lasting social impact. Germany is a country forever plagued by the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler. Before World War II, Hitler's Germany hosted the Olympic Games in the capital Berlin. Hitler found these games an ideal way to show the world that Aryans or non-Jewish whites are superior to all others. Fortunately, Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete, proved Hitler's views illogical with his performance at the Berlin Olympics. Owens has won four gold medals. Shortly after the Berlin Olympics, Hitler's lust for power sparked World War II. The Nazis marched across much of Europe, ransacking every country in their path. But it was the Jewish people who felt Hitler's wrath the most. During World War II, the Nazis killed six million Jewish men, women and children; In addition to the death toll, Hitler and the Nazis managed to corrupt the worldview of the German people. After the triumphant victory of the Allies and Hitler's suicide, Germany is divided into two sections: a communist Russian ruled...... middle of paper ...... I want revenge. I just want the truth" (). The truth is exactly what Spitzer received, the trial ended in a settlement, but the truth that Germany was at fault was vilified. The impact of the crisis hostages at the 1972 Summer Games is still relevant in The 2006 Atlanta Olympics were also attacked A bomb was placed in the open and detonated Even though the Atlanta Games were not detonated. had such a profound impact on the world, they proved that security had improved Massacre is the gateway to more security as well as highly trained security, Charles Bierbauer, CNN's senior correspondent in Washington, said. says: “Munich was to a large extent a turning point, it was since 1972 that the general public had submitted to security searches at airports and arenas and other public events - and I learned to live with it. the threat of terrorism” ().