In 1972, in the midst of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the 20th Olympic Games in Munich. While the government of West Germany wanted, with these “Games of Peace and Joy”, to forget the sad memory of the Olympic Games organized by Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1936, terror resurfaced on the German soil. On September 5, 1972, a commando of eight Palestinians belonging to the “Black September” group infiltrated the Olympic village, killed two Israeli athletes and took nine others hostage. The “Games of Joy” were those of horror. After Munich, and, regarding Cambodia, this country will not participate in the Olympics for a long time due to a civil war. It was not until 1996 that he would reconnect with the Olympic flame.
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The 1972 Munich Olympic Games mourned by a tragic hostage taking
