How Did The Munich Olympics Controversy

Berlin is typically known as the Nazi Olympics so that in itself can be estimate to the controversy surrounding the game. People in the United States and Europe, for the first time, called for a boycott of the Olympic Games. They believed this was a travesty and a mockery that such a historic event, meant for entertainment and excitement, would be help in a place with so much devastating history. It was too much too soon. Nazis used the Olympics as symbolism for a new, strengthened, and united Germany attempting to overshadow the holocaust. Despite the boycott, fourty nine nations sent their teams to be apart of the games. Berlin bedazzled itself by providing tourists delight and hospitality to visitors coming to enjoy the games. When the games ended, this only intensified the Nazi regime. They had a new image to a part of the world that overshadowed the monsters in their closets for too many.

The 1972 summer Olympics took a devastating turn after a travesty. Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were slaughtered to death by Palestine terrorists, affiliated with the militant group Black September, in the second week of the games. This is known as the Munich Massacre. Germany’s army was very well equipped to aid in stopping this devastating event from getting worse. They were not allowed to help the police though after West Germany’s post war constitution. Police snipers were not properly in place and the operators had no way of communicating with each other which led them to be a nuisance in stopping this attack. Armoured cars were stuck in traffic and everything that could have possibly went wrong in fact, did go wrong. Attack after attack happened. The terrorists got into multiple shoot outs with the police. Munich became a specialized counter-terrorism unit with nationwide