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Munich massacre

The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli team members hostage. Those hostages were later also killed by the militants during a failed rescue attempt.

Munich massacre
Munich massacre · AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf (? – 2014), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
5 Sept 1972 – 6 Sept 1972
Where
Olympic Village, Munich
Era
Contemporary

Topics

Israeli–Palestinian conflict1917 – todayGermany1,250 BCE – todayWest Germany1877 – 1990

Before and after

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