50 years ago: Palestinian terrorist attack on Israel’s Olympic team ends in carnage after an amateurish German attempt to free them. Shock in Germany and worldwide horror at the violation of the Olympic truce.
They should be merry games as a deliberate contrast of the new Germany to the infamous 1936 “Nazi Olympics” in Berlin. Rarely has there been so much dancing and singing at the Olympics as in Munich in 1972. Even the law enforcement officers were unarmed!
The games, which began as a unique celebration of the celebration, ended in a unique disaster, in sheer horror: on September 5 at 4:55 AM, Palestinian terrorists attacked the completely unsecured barracks of the Israeli team with guns to kill 200 Palestinians from Israel. liberate prisons. . They shoot two athletes and take nine hostages. What started as a night of horror ended the night after in a bloodbath that killed the nine hostages and a police officer.
The terrorist attack caught everyone responsible completely unprepared. Tiresome negotiations followed. The killers kept issuing ultimatums that expired. Attempts to get to the hostages fail. The then Minister of the Interior, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and others offered to be deputy hostages, without success. The terrorists finally demand a plane to fly the prisoners to Cairo. Finally, a plane is made available at Fürstenfeldbruck airport, and at the same time, security forces are working hard to find ways to free the trapped athletes.
Wild gunfights
When two helicopters with terrorists and hostages on board land in Fürstenfeldbruck around 10:30 PM, the ultimate catastrophe ensues: an amateurish liberation attempt ends in wild gunfights. All hostages and a police officer perish in the hail of bullets. Five of the killers are also killed. Three more are arrested, but released in October with the help of a hijacking.
Sports competitions were suspended and resumed after one day. Olympia president Avery Brundage issued the slogan that became a hallmark of cynicism: “The games must go on.”
Germany was in shock: 27 years after the Holocaust, Jews are being murdered on German soil. Israel’s revenge soon followed: all Palestinians in this terrorist group were hunted down and shot.
Source: Krone
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