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Germany on Monday sought "forgiveness" from families of victims in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, admitting responsibility for a litany of failings that led to the deaths of 11 Israelis.The apology by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on behalf of Germany 50 years on came after a bitter and long fight by bereaved relatives for appropriate compensation and for Berlin to own up to mistakes made that led to the massacre.

It's also for the first time the German state acknowledged its failings that led to the deaths of 11 Israelis in 1972

Today marks 50 years since a massacre at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Here's all you need to know about what happened.

“Shameful” that it took 50 years to reach a compensation agreement with the victims’ families, says German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Meeting Herzog, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says country avoided its responsibility for 1972 massacre 'for far too long'; Scholz decries 'relativizing' Holocaust, in nod to Abbas row