Stock Photo - Widow of the killed fencing coach Andre Spitzer has a look at the completely destroyed room in the Olympic Village, in which the terrorists had kept nine Israeli athletes four days earlier. Arabic terrorists of the group ""Black September"" had entered the village in the morning of the 5th of September in 1972, overwhelmed nine athletes and shot two. Their ultimatum: Release of two hundred captured Palestinians and free withdrawal with the remaining hostages. In the evening, the terrorists and the hostages took a helicopter to the military airbase Fuerstenfeldbruck. Hours later, the release operation failed. All nine hostages, five terrorists and one policeman from Munich were killed, three terrorists injured and overwhelmed. - München/Germany

Stock Photo: Widow of the killed fencing coach Andre Spitzer has a look at the completely destroyed room in the Olympic Village, in which the terrorists had kept nine.

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