Fifty years after what has been described as the "darkest day in Olympic history", the German government has agreed to pay the families of 11 murdered Israeli athletes more than $40 million in compensation.
The German government will also hold an inquiry that might finally expose all the facts surrounding what has become known as the Munich massacre.
The long shadow of Nazism that hung over what was then known as West Germany was supposed to be banished by the 1972 Munich Olympics, 36 years after the Berlin Games had been hijacked for the worst kind of propaganda.
