One Day in September Page #2

His father was from Germany

originally...

and thought that because he's speaking

German, nothing would happen to them.

Alex Springer

So all the family stayed in Poland

during the war...

but my father ran to Russia.

He didn't want to stay because he was

afraid something will happen to them.

And all the family...

his brothers, sisters

and his parents...

were killed in Poland.

He was the only one who survived.

Thirty-six years

after the Nazi Olympics...

Dachau, the first of the concentration

camps, was chosen as the site...

for an Olympic memorial service.

The Israeli team

came to the service...

along with competitors

from most European countries.

Dachau is just six miles

from the Munich stadium.

I think it was very difficult

for him with the memories...

of his family

and what the Germans did to them.

I think he felt this.

But maybe it was also

for him to-

to show something to the Germans...

that " Here I am, coming back

to the Olympic Games...

and you-

you couldn't really destroy me. "

Spitz is still holding them off.

He's got a half a meter lead.

Down on the near side is- But Spitz is

gonna go in. Spitz wins the gold medal!

Mark Spitz, USA.

And that is the whistle anyway,

and the United States...

have kept their unbeaten record

unless-

The referee says there's

three more seconds to play.

The only way they're going to score

is by going for a long shot.

And they got it!

My goodness, I don't believe it.

I do not believe it.

The Russians have got the gold.

Victory for the USSR

for the first time ever.

Absolutely fantastic.

She loves every moment of it!

Myself and two others traveled

from Libya to Germany...

two days before the operation.

We went to a hotel which the

leadership had given us the address of.

There we met up with

the rest of the team-

another group of three and two leaders

who had been in Munich for some time.

The following day my friend and I...

went to a couple of volleyball games

at the Olympic Park.

We still had not been told what

the target of our operation was to be.

After one of the competitions he said,

"Hey, there is the Lebanese team.

I'm going over

to say hello to them. "

I, coming from Holland, said,

'Are you out of your mind?"

They are from Lebanon.

Israel was in a state of war

with Lebanon.

He said, 'Ankie, that's exactly what

the Olympics are all about.

Here I can go to them and talk to them.

That's what the Olympics are about. "

So he went over and he asked

how were your results...

and I'm from Israel,

and how did it go?

To my big amazement, I saw

that the people responded...

and they shook hands with him

and they talked to him...

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