Mounting pressure from non-Jewish groups and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin has led the German Sports Science Association and the University of Göttingen to convene special sessions to address an anti-Semitic theory propagated by Göttingen Prof. Arnd Krüger.
At an academic conference on June 20 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Krüger argued in his lecture on 'Hebron and Munich: How do we communicate sports history without getting caught in [the] snare of anti-Semitism?' that the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who died at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich essentially committed suicide 'for the cause of Israel.'
According to a report in the mass-circulation daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, Krüger contends the sportsmen sacrificed themselves to prolong financial restitution from Germany, and to preserve guilt among Germans due to the Holocaust. |