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The Ballads of the GamesMunichPhotos from the making of the Munich Ballad

Photos by Vince Hunt

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19/24

Connollystrasse - the car park under the flats

The hostages were led out to the buses with German sharpshooters hiding behind pillars.

  • Olga Korbut, interviewed for the Ballad at her home in Arizona
  • The wall listing the 1972 Olympic winners in each event
  • Dame Mary Peters
  • Brigitte Maibohm, who worked on the ticketing of the Games
  • Plaque in Tel Aviv
  • Elisabeth Traeder from the Max Planck Institute, which owns the Connollystrasse flats
  • Chris Young, German sports historian and author of ‘Munich: the Making of Modern Germany’
  • Ankie Spitzer and Tali Slavin from Israel. Ankie lost husband Andre & Tali lost her brother Mark
  • Sprinter Esther Roth Shaharamov
  • Walter Troeger negotiated with the Palestinian leader Issa, who conducted talks with a live hand grenade held in his fist
  • Israeli Olympic Committee secretary general Efraim Zinger
  • Djibril Rajoub, chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee
  • Scottish sports writer Doug Gillon, who covered his first Olympics at Munich
  • Olympic Stadium in Munich - the legacy of Munich has lasted for decades after the Games
  • Olympia Halle
  • The Olympic Park in Munich
  • A symbolic bridge remembering the eleven Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics
  • One Israeli athlete saved his life by jumping from the first floor of Connollystrasse and escaping when the attack happened
  • Connollystrasse - the car park under the flats
  • Ramallah
  • Separation Wall
  • Tel Aviv Statue
  • Mark Slavin Memorial
  • Tel Aviv

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