Editing Munich massacre (section)

===Claims of German awareness before the attack===
The German news magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' reported in 2012 that West German authorities had received a tip-off from a Palestinian informant in [[Beirut]] three weeks before the massacre.<ref name=Knew>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-had-a-tip-off-three-weeks-in-advance-that-palestinians-were-planning-incident-at-munich-olympics-but-failed-to-act-der-spiegel-claims|title=Germany had a tip-off three weeks ahead of Munich massacre, Der Spiegel claims|newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]]|date=22 July 2012|access-date=22 July 2012|author=Ahren, Raphael|archive-date=24 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724124323/http://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-had-a-tip-off-three-weeks-in-advance-that-palestinians-were-planning-incident-at-munich-olympics-but-failed-to-act-der-spiegel-claims/|url-status=live}}</ref> The informant warned that Palestinians were planning an "incident" at the Olympic Games, and the [[Federal Foreign Office]] in Bonn took the tip-off seriously enough to pass it to the Bavarian State [[Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution|Secret Service]] in Munich, urging that "all possible security measures" be taken.<ref name="Knew" /> According to ''Der Spiegel'', the authorities failed to act on the tip and never acknowledged it in the following 40 years.<ref name="Knew" /> The magazine claimed this was part of a 40-year cover-up by German authorities regarding their mishandling of the response to the massacre.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bohr |first1=Felix |last2=Frohn |first2=Axel |last3=Latsch |first3=Gunther |last4=Neumann |first4=Conny |others=Wiegrefe, Klaus |title=Die angekündigte Katastrophe |journal=Der Spiegel |number=30 |date=23 July 2012 |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-87508597.html |access-date=29 November 2017 |archive-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421093509/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-87508597.html |url-status=live }}</ref>