About 20 hours after it began, five of the hostage-takers would be dead, along with 11 members of Israel's Olympic team and a West German policeman.īut the Munich massacre of Sept. Their mission was to hold Israeli athletes hostage and demand the release of 236 prisoners: 234 in Israel and the two leaders of the West German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group. They were members of the group Black September - an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization. when an attack that would shock the world began - quietly.Įight men in tracksuits hopped the fence at Munich's Olympic Village, carrying with them Kalashnikov rifles and grenades in duffel bags. It was the first time a terrorist attack had been broadcast live to a global audience. A member of Black September appears on the balcony of the apartment where gunmen held members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage on Sept.
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