Episode 27 - The 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
Nov 05, 2017•45 min
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Episode description
It’s 4:30am 5th September 1972 Munich. It’s the second week of the Olympic games. Eight highly armed members of the Black September Organisation, scale the chain link fence into the Olympic village and take Israeli coaches and athletes hostage, killing two. By 1:30am the next day, the hostage drama would be all over with 17 dead.
This is the tragic story of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre.
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