September 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the attack during the Olympics.
Germany’s the government has decided to give a total of 28 million euros to the family members of those who died in the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The sitting president of Israel Isaac Herzog was pleased with Germany’s gesture.
“I want to express my gratitude, Chancellor [Olaf] Scholz’s to the leading German government for this important step. They take responsibility and correct the injustice of history that the victims’ families have had to experience.”
September 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the Munich massacre, where over two days, Palestinian terrorists held and killed athletes and staff members of the Israeli Olympic team. A total of 11 Israelis died. In addition to them, five terrorists and a West German policeman lost their lives.
The event has been talked about for a long time, and it has, among other things, been made by Steven Spielberg directed film in 2005. There has been a memorial to the victims in Munich since September 2017.
The Munich Olympics are best remembered by Finns Lasse Virénin About the 10,000 meter gold race, where a man fell and ran to gold in world record time.
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