{"id":18768,"date":"2023-04-21T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/germany-appoints-commission-to\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T06:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T06:39:57","slug":"germany-appoints-commission-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/germany-appoints-commission-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany appoints commission to re-appraise 1972 Munich Olympics attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has appointed an eight-person commission to re-appraise the attack on Israeli athletes and team members at the 1972 Munich Olympics to answer unresolved questions, said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too many years, there was a lack of understanding or reappraisal of the events, transparency about them or acceptance of responsibility for them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of a larger government approach to seek reconciliation with the families affected, including a compensation offer of 28 million euros ($30.67 million).   <\/p>\n<p>Palestinians from the Black September militant group took members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage on Sept. 5, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven Israelis, a German policeman and five of the Palestinian gunmen died after a stand-off at the Olympic village and the nearby Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Games continued in 1972 after the attacks and the IOC took almost half a century to comply with families&#8217; requests for an official act of remembrance at an Olympic event.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.9131 euros)<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Miranda Murray; editing by John Stonestreet and Rachel More)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/germany-appoints-commission-to\/50th-anniversary-of-the-attack-on-israeli-team-at-1972\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K05S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K05S-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has appointed an eight-person commission to re-appraise the attack on Israeli athletes and team members at the 1972 Munich Olympics to answer unresolved questions, said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in a statement on Friday. &#8220;For too many years, there was a lack of understanding or reappraisal of the events, transparency about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K05S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18770,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions\/18770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}