The families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian attackers at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich will not attend a 50-year anniversary ceremony organized by German authorities, saying they deserve more compensation and a fuller reckoning of the tragedy.
The decision announced Thursday underscores a lingering point of friction between the two countries that have built strong ties despite the enduring legacy of the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered during World War II.
"Fifty years of abuse, lies, humiliation and dismissals by the German Government, and by the Bavarian authorities in particular, are really too much for us," the group of families wrote in a letter to Bavarian authorities, who are organizing the Sept. 5 memorial event. "I was 26 when this happened in Munich. I'm 76 now. I don't need a diamond ring," she told The Associated Press. She said the families want "fair and just compensation," especially for the 14 people who lost parents in the attack and have lived in its shadow for a half century.
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