The amount of compensation for the survivors of the eleven Israeli Olympic participants killed in Munich in 1972 remains secret.
Ankie Spitzer, wife of the fencer Andrei Spitzer who was murdered in the terrorist attack and spokeswoman for the affected families, reported on Dutch television about an alleged confidentiality obligation that the Federal Republic of Germany had presented to them.
According to Spitzer, this paper should have been signed by all those affected. The news agency AFP, Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung had reported 28 million euros.
She could not confirm this number, said Spitzer: “The Germans do not want the sum to be known. I can say that it is a reasonable sum.”
The fact that the compensation finally worked out is mainly due to the efforts of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Terror at the Olympics in Munich in 1972: Twelve dead
The two had spoken to each other almost every day over the past few days in order to reach an agreement before the memorial day and the official funeral service on September 5th.
Most recently, the families of the victims had announced that they would not travel to the memorial event in Fürstenfeldbruck if the issue of compensation had not been resolved by then.
Now she “feels like the circle has finally come full circle. We’ve now achieved everything we wanted to achieve,” said Ankie Spitzer.
On September 5th and 6th, 1972, the Palestinian terrorist command “Black September” murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team. A German policeman was also killed in the unsuccessful liberation operation in Fürstenfeldbruck.