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Five Rings, Black Morning: Munich’s Day of Terror and the Shattered Promise of 1972

It was supposed to be the party where the world remembered how to breathe. The 1972 Summer Games in Munich were designed as a rebuttal to history’s darkest echoes—sunlit architecture, pastel uniforms, smiling volunteers, and a host city determined to prove that “the cheerful Games” could rinse the century’s taste of iron from the mouth. …

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