Munich massacre
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Front view of the Israeli apartment at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where the athletes were held hostage during the Munich massacre. (2007) | |
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Official name | Munich massacre |
Year | 1972 |
Date | 09/05 |
Date | 09/06 |
Place | West Germany |
Place | Europe |
Story Perps/s | Black September |
Official summary
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a German police officer.
Shortly after the crisis began, a Black September spokesman demanded that 234 Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel and the German held founders of the Red Army Faction, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, be released.
Black September called the operation "Iqrit and Biram", after two Palestinian Christian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Black September commander, Luttif Afif, was born to Jewish and Christian parents. His group was associated with secular nationalism, working for the rights of Palestinians in Israel.
Police officers killed five of the eight Black September members during a failed attempt to rescue the hostages. A German policeman was also killed in the crossfire. The other three Palestinian hijackers were captured. The next month, however, following the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615, the German government released them in a hostage exchange.
Fakeology Analysis
Other
- Vexmansthoughts: Munich Olympic Games attack another hoax[1]
- Hoaxfinder: Olympic Games Munich attack[2]
Mainstream links
- Wikipedia: 1972 Munich massacre [MSM 1]
Narrative
Typology
Alleged victims
- Shot during the initial break-in
- Moshe Weinberg, wrestling coach
- Yossef Romano, weightlifter
- Shot and killed by grenade in eastern-side helicopter D-HAQO
- Ze'ev Friedman, weightlifter
- David Berger, weightlifter (survived grenade but died of smoke inhalation)
- Yakov Springer, weightlifting judge
- Eliezer Halfin, wrestler
- Shot in western-side helicopter D-HAQU
- Yossef Gutfreund, wrestling referee
- Kehat Shorr, shooting coach
- Mark Slavin, wrestler
- Andre Spitzer, fencing coach
- Amitzur Shapira, track coach
- Anton Fliegerbauer, German police officer
- Palestinian terrorists shot dead by German police
- Luttif Afif ("Issa")
- Yusuf Nazzal ("Tony")
- Afif Ahmed Hamid ("Paolo")
- Khalid Jawad ("Salah")
- Ahmed Chic Thaa ("Abu Halla")
Hoax management
Memorials
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Memorial panel for the victims of the attack on the site of the Munich Olympic Park
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Memorial for the dead athletes in front of the airport in Fürstenfeldbruck. The names of the victims are engraved.
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Place of memory in Ben Shemen forest in Israel
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Graves of five victims of the Munich massacre at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Israel. From left to right: André Spitzer, Mark Slavin, Eliezer Halfin, Kehat Shorr and Amitzur Schapira.
Media
- 1972, by Sarah Morris
- 21 Hours at Munich
- Munich, a 2005 American-Canadian historical drama
- Munich: Mossad's Revenge
- One Day in September, 1999 documentary by Kevin Macdonald; winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary
- National Geographic Seconds From Disaster episodes
- Sword of Gideon
- Visions of Eight
- Munich 1972 & Beyond, 2016 documentary film by Steven Ungerleider
See also
- 9/11
- Glossary
- Main List of psyOps
- Death of Celebrity Person
- Space fakery
- Nuke Hoax
- Plane crashes
- Various events
References
Fakeologist
Cluesforum