The 1972 Munich Olympics - remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team - were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520262158
ISBN-13
9780520262157
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94727304
Product Key Features
Author
Chris Young, Kay Schiller
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
458g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Berkerley
Spine
20mm
Series Part/Volume Number
42
Series Title
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Content Note
25 B/w Photographs
Author Biography
Kay Schiller is Senior Lecturer in History at Durham University. His books on German-Jewish refugee scholars during National Socialism include Gelehrte Gegenwelten and Weltoffener Humanismus (edited with Gerald Hartung). Christopher Young is Reader in Modern and Medieval German Studies and Head of the Department of German and Dutch at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs Willehalm and a coauthor of History of the German Language through Texts.