Just 27 years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Olympic Games were held in the Federal Republic of Germany in September 1972. The “cheerful games” in Munich were intended to represent a deliberately staged contrast to Hitler's propaganda games of Berlin in 1936 — with modern architecture, in a relaxed atmosphere and cosmopolitan. On the eleventh day, however, the games became Munich's summer tragedy. The bloody events are the subject of a new film — nominated for an Oscar — with the title 'September 5' The director is Tim Fehlbaum from Basel. Thomas de Vogt saw the film and reports:
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