1972 Germany Munich Summer Olympics XX ATHLETES on 10 Mark Silver Coin i53631

Item: i53631

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Germany
1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games Commemorative
1972 D (Issued in 1971) Silver 10 Mark 32.5mm (15.48 grams) 0.625 silver (0.3095 oz. ASW)
Stuttgart mint
Reference: KM# 132 Mintage: 4,850,000
BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 10  DEUTSCHE MARK, Eagle of Germany, F under right wing.
DER XX. OLYMPIADE 1972 IN MUNCHEN, Two nude
athletes, one male, one female kneeling.
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The
1972 Summer
Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1972),
officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an
international

multi-sport event
held in
Munich
,
West Germany
, from August 26 to September 11,
1972. The sporting nature of the event was largely overshadowed by the
Munich massacre
in which eleven
Israeli
athletes and coaches and a West German
police officer were killed. Five
Black September
Palestinian terrorists died.

The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second
Summer Olympics
to be held in Germany, after
the
1936 Games
in
Berlin
, which had taken place under the
Nazi regime
. Mindful of the connection, the
West German Government was eager to take the opportunity of the Munich Olympics
to present a new, democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by
the Games’ official motto, "Die Heiteren Spiele", or "the cheerful Games". The
logo of the Games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun") by
Otl Aicher
, the designer and director of the
visual conception commission. The Olympic mascot, the
dachshund
"Waldi",
was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare was composed
by
Herbert Rehbein
, a companion of
Bert Kaempfert
.

The Olympic Park (Olympiapark)
is based on Frei Otto
‘s plans and after the Games became a
Munich landmark. The competition sites, designed by architect
Günther Behnisch
, included the Olympic swimming
hall, the Olympics Hall (Olympiahalle, a multipurpose facility) and the
Olympic Stadium
(Olympiastadion), and an
Olympic village very close to the park. The design of the stadium was considered
revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of
acrylic glass
stabilized by metal ropes, used
on such a large scale for the first time.

Germany,
officially the Federal Republic of Germany is a
federal

parliamentary republic
in
western
–central
Europe. It includes 16
constituent states
and covers an area of
357,021 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi) with a largely temperate seasonal
climate. Its
capital
and
largest city
is
Berlin
. With 81 million inhabitants, Germany is
the most populous member state in the
European Union
. After the United States, it is
the second most popular
migration destination
in the world.

Various
Germanic tribes
have occupied northern Germany
since
classical antiquity
. A region named
Germania
was
documented
before 100 CE. During the
Migration Period
the Germanic tribes expanded
southward. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central
part of the
Holy Roman Empire
.
During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the
Protestant Reformation
.

The rise of
Pan-Germanism
inside the
German Confederation
resulted in the
unification of most of the German states
in
1871 into the Prussian
-dominated
German Empire
. After
World War I
and the
German Revolution of 1918–1919
, the Empire was
replaced by the parliamentary
Weimar Republic
.
The establishment
of the
Third Reich
in 1933 led to
World War II
and the
Holocaust
. After 1945, Germany split into two
states,
East Germany
and
West Germany
.
In 1990
, the country was
reunified
.

In the 21st century, Germany is a
great power
and has the world’s
fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP
, as well
as the
fifth-largest by PPP
. As a global leader in
several industrial and technological sectors, it is both the world’s
third-largest exporter
and
importer
of goods. Germany is a
developed country
with a
very high standard of living
sustained by a
skilled and productive society. It upholds a
social security
and
universal health care
system, environmental
protection and a tuition free university education.

Germany was a founding member of the European Union in 1993. It is part of
the Schengen Area
, and became a co-founder of the
Eurozone
in 1999. Germany is a member of the
United Nations
,

NATO, the
G8
, the
G20
, and the
OECD
. The national military expenditure is the
9th highest in the world. Known for its rich
cultural
history, Germany has been continuously
the home of influential
artists
,
philosophers
,
musicians
,
sportsmen
,
entrepreneurs
,
scientists and inventors
.