Abstract
The overriding purpose for the organizers of the 1972 Summer Munich Olympic Games was to demonstrate to the world that the post-World War II Federal Republic of Germany (from now on, West Germany) had become a modern democratic and open society. There were two key persons in this process: Willi Daume, the head of West German sport and President of the Munich Organizing Committee, and Hans-Jochen Vogel, the mayor of Munich and Vice-President of the Munich Organizing Committee. Daume and Vogel, together with others on the Committee, wanted to erase the negative memories of Hitler’s 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. As has been shown in the research literature, however, this purpose was not supported by all Germans (see Schiller and Young, 2010; Pfeiffer, 2001; Dwertmann and Pfeiffer, 2001). Especially the other Germany, the German Democratic Republic (from now on, East Germany) was eager to suppress the initiative that the Olympics should be given to Munich.1
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