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This is very interesting. I bought a documental a couple of days ago called One Day in September and it is about the terrorists of the Munich '72 Olympic games.
I am a vivid Olympics fan and there are a lot of things I did not know about this even though I have read about it and I recently purchased on eBay a Life magazine of 1972 covering it.
The film is very shocking, there is footage of the dead athletes which I've never seen before. Also out of the 8 terrorists that participated on this, 5 were killed at the Munich airport, and 3 were captured. The other 3 then were released by the German government without the consent of the Israeli government and all the dead and alive were received as heroes in their country. One of the 3 survivors is still alive, hiding in Africa and he talks about it on the documental. He still thinks the way he did 34 years ago and he is proud of what he did. The other terrorists were killed by an Israeli secret assassins squad along with other palestinians that presumed were in the planning of this.
I knew that 11 Israeli athletes were killed, but I thought they were all killed at the Olympic village. Only 2 were killed at the village the other 9 were killed at the Munich airport. The terrorists asked for 2 helicopters to take them to the airport, so they took the 9 athletes with them and tied them up in the helicopters, when they arrived at the airport, the German police was waiting for them and a shooting broke down. One of the terrorists threw a grenade to one of the helicopters and another one shot a round of bullets to the other helicopter, killing the remaining 9 athletes.
The wife of one of the coaches killed and the daughters of 2 athletes also talked on the documental.
I am a vivid Olympics fan and there are a lot of things I did not know about this even though I have read about it and I recently purchased on eBay a Life magazine of 1972 covering it.
The film is very shocking, there is footage of the dead athletes which I've never seen before. Also out of the 8 terrorists that participated on this, 5 were killed at the Munich airport, and 3 were captured. The other 3 then were released by the German government without the consent of the Israeli government and all the dead and alive were received as heroes in their country. One of the 3 survivors is still alive, hiding in Africa and he talks about it on the documental. He still thinks the way he did 34 years ago and he is proud of what he did. The other terrorists were killed by an Israeli secret assassins squad along with other palestinians that presumed were in the planning of this.
I knew that 11 Israeli athletes were killed, but I thought they were all killed at the Olympic village. Only 2 were killed at the village the other 9 were killed at the Munich airport. The terrorists asked for 2 helicopters to take them to the airport, so they took the 9 athletes with them and tied them up in the helicopters, when they arrived at the airport, the German police was waiting for them and a shooting broke down. One of the terrorists threw a grenade to one of the helicopters and another one shot a round of bullets to the other helicopter, killing the remaining 9 athletes.
The wife of one of the coaches killed and the daughters of 2 athletes also talked on the documental.
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