Ilana Romano and Ankie Spitzer, whose husbands were among the Israeli athletes murdered by PLO terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, have for the first time made public information they obtained about the massacre, including photographs and descriptions of the torture and beatings to which the hostages were subjected. Sam Borden writes:
Ms. Spitzer explained that she and the family members of the other victims only learned the details of how the victims were treated twenty years after the tragedy, when German authorities released hundreds of pages of reports they previously denied existed. . . . “We asked for more details [in the aftermath of the attacks], but we were told, over and over, there was nothing,” Ms. Spitzer said.
In 1992, after doing an interview with a German television station regarding the twentieth anniversary of the attack in which she expressed frustration about not knowing exactly what happened to her husband and his teammates, Ms. Spitzer was contacted by a man who said he worked for a German government agency with access to reams of records about the attack.
Initially, Ms. Spitzer said, the man, who remained anonymous, sent her about 80 pages of police reports and other documents. With those documents, Pinchas Zeltzer, the lawyer [representing the victims’ families], and Ms. Spitzer pressured the German government into releasing the rest of the file, which included the photographs.
Read more on New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/sports/long-hidden-details-reveal-cruelty-of-1972-munich-attackers.html