Panel of historians begins review of 1972 Munich Olympics attack

One of the group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic team on the balcony of the building where the hostages were held (Kurt Strumpf/AP)

A panel of historians set up to review the 1972 attack on the Munich Olympics is beginning its three-year mission to examine what happened before, during and after the events of five decades ago, the German government said.

In April, Germany’s interior ministry named the eight-member international commission of experts, most based in Israel or Germany, as part of an agreement last year with relatives of the 11 Israeli team members who were killed by Palestinian militants.