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05/09/1972 Munich massacre

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Munich massacre remembered

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Munich Massacre - 1972 | Today In History | 5 Sept 17

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Horror of Munich Olympic Massacre plays out in '72 newscast - Daily Mail

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Munich Olympics still influence today's security

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Today In History: Olympic Massacre: Munich

The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a West German police officer. Police officers killed five of the eight Black September members during a failed attempt to rescue the hostages.