 After a lengthy court fight, in 2004 the families of the Munich victims reached a settlement of €3 million with the German government.An article in 2012 in a front-page story of the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" reported that much of the information pertaining to the mishandling of the massacre was covered up by the German authorities.For twenty years, Germany refused to release any information about the attack and did not accept responsibility for the results.