#Munich Massacre

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[skypalacearchitect]

How do you think of yourself as a "progressive" while supporting the right wing jewish extremist government of the criminal ethnostate of Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinians with American bullets

It's genuinely beyond my comprehension how you can still consider yourself to be on the side of the oppressed and downtrodden of the world.

those are a lot of words for “I’m antisemitic, and I like to project onto other people.”

Edit: I just found out your tumblr name is literally celebrating a fucking terrorist attack and massacre at 1972 olympics. Because you’re that rabidly antisemitic.

After reading the whole article, I have to say: calling you an absolute scumbag is an understatement.

Disrespectfully, go fuck yourself.

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[noaluvs]

Posted 52 minutes ago .

[pleasestopthese]

on the 52nd anniversary of the munich massacre, in which 11 israeli olympic athletes were murdered by pflp members during the games, somebody shot up the israeli embassy in munich with an automatic rifle. today. the news i woke up to. the shooter is dead now. what a fucking waste of a life.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

YAKOV SPRINGER

YAKOV SPRINGER

10 June 1921 - 6 September 1972

MUNICH MASSACRE VICTIM

            Yakov Springer was a Polish-born wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge. During the Holocaust, Springer was involved in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

            He was murdered with 10 other men who were representing Israel in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany. The victims were murdered by Palestinian terrorists who took the 11 Israelis as hostages and asked for the release of 236 Palestinian prisoners in Israel and Germany. When the terrorists and hostages arrived at the airport, the German police attacked the terrorists in an attempt to rescue the hostages. It was during this time the terrorists killed the hostages who were bound in a helicopter with guns and grenades.

            The terrorist attack was carried out by Palestinian terrorists who gained entrance in the Olympic Village, when they arrived they killed two Israeli sports men and took nine others as hostages. After the hostages, five terrorists, and one police officer were killed, the three surviving hostages were arrested and released a month later because of a hostage exchange agreement. The terrorists returned to the Middle East and also did a media interview where they showed no remorse to the victims who were killed.  

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[clemsfilmdiary]

21 Hours at Munich (1976, William A. Graham)

7/3/23

[jake-856]

Check out the Munich Massacre. It happened during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games. I know you don’t want to hear about it that.

I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

[truegeorge]

The Olympic Games

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[eretzyisrael]

The AP and Reuters also avoided using the term “terrorist” when referring to the members of the Black September terror group responsible for the massacre.

Instead, the AP referred to them variously as “Palestinian militants,” “captors,” “attackers,” and “assailants,” while Reuters referred to them as “gunmen.”

The New York Times did use the term “terrorists,” but only once near the end of its story, mainly referring to Black September as “Palestinian militants.”

The media’s refusal to use the term “terrorist” is all the more blatant given the German Interior Ministry’s purposeful usage of the term in its English-language press release.

The New York Times and Reuters also appeared to obscure the nature of what actually occurred during the Munich Massacre.

As noted by the AP, the terrorists initially killed two Israeli athletes, taking nine others hostage. Then, while attempting to escape via helicopter with the remaining hostages, a gunfight broke out between the German police and the terrorists. During the gunfight, the terrorists threw a grenade at one of the groups of Israeli athletes while shooting the other group to death at point-blank range.

Reuters, however, claimed that the athletes simply “died after a stand-off,” while The New York Times described their deaths as the result of a “bloody shootout.”

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Munich Games Massacre

The Munich Games marked the first return of the Olympics to a German city since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Adolf Hitler’s use of those Games as a platform for the propagation of Nazi ideology was roundly criticized, as was the blatant racism and anti-Semitism that characterized the Games. The West German invitation had been extended, in part at least, to offer the world a contrast to the horrifying spectacle of Berlin.

For more than a week, the Games unfolded without incident. The day of terror began at 4:30 AM on September 5, 1972, when eight Palestinian militants affiliated with Black September—a militant offshoot of the Palestinian group Fatah—scaled a fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich. Disguised as athletes and using stolen keys, they forced their way into the quarters of the Israeli Olympic team at 31 Connollystrasse. As they attempted to enter Apartment 1, they were confronted by Yossef Gutfreund, a wrestling referee, and Moshe Weinberg, a wrestling coach. Weinberg was shot while fighting with the attackers, who forced him at gunpoint to lead them to the rooms of the remaining Israeli coaches and athletes. It has been proposed that Weinberg led the attackers past Apartment 2—which was also being used by the Israeli team—because he believed that the wrestlers and weightlifters in Apartment 3 would be better able to fight back. However, Black September had detailed plans of the Olympic Village and the dispositions of the Israeli athletes. Shaul Ladany, a race walker who survived the attack after escaping from Apartment 2, suggested that it was much more likely that his room was bypassed because he was housed with members of the Israeli shooting team. The terrorists had struggled to subdue the unarmed men in Apartment 1; it is unlikely that they had wished to engage in a close-quarters gun battle with world-class marksmen in the opening minutes of their operation.

In Apartment 3 the terrorists gathered more hostages and forced them back to Apartment 1. Wrestler Gad Tsabari broke from the group and dashed down a flight of stairs toward an underground parking garage, and Weinberg took advantage of the confusion to again fight the attackers. Weinberg had nearly gained control of a terrorist’s gun when he was shot and killed. Despite being on crutches due to an injury during competition, Yossef Romano, a weightlifter, also made an attempt to disarm one of the terrorists. Romano was killed and his mutilated body was left on the floor of Apartment 1 as a warning. While two Israelis lay dead in the Olympic Village and nine others were being held hostage, International Olympic Committee (IOC) chairman Avery Brundage insisted that the games continue. The terrorists demanded the liberation of more than 200 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, the release of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction from German prisons, and the provision of an airplane to fly them to a safe destination in the Middle East. While negotiations were ongoing, a planned rescue attempt had to be called off when it was realized that actions of West German police were being broadcast live to nearly 1 billion people around the world and to the many televisions throughout the Olympic Village. At about 10:00 PM on September 5, believing they had reached an agreement, the terrorists led their bound and blindfolded hostages from their quarters into buses that transported them to waiting helicopters.

The helicopters carried them to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, 15 miles (25 km) west of the Olympic Village, where police were lying in ambush. Although the German army had better training and equipment for such a mission, under West Germany’s postwar constitution, the armed forces were forbidden from aiding the civilian police. The police snipers used in the operation had not received formal training as sharpshooters, they were improperly placed and inadequate in number, and they lacked radios to communicate with each other or with commanders. In addition, they were armed with assault rifles rather than sniper rifles, and their weapons had neither long-range scopes nor night-vision capability. On the air base tarmac was a Boeing 727 filled with 17 police officers disguised as a Lufthansa flight crew. It was intended that these officers would subdue the terrorists once they had boarded the plane, but the police unanimously chose to abandon their posts. Armoured cars that were to have aided in the rescue of the Israelis were dispatched too late and became stuck in traffic. With myriad failures in both planning and execution, the result was a disaster on virtually every level.

The helicopters arrived about 10:30 PM, and two terrorists went to inspect the jetliner. Finding it empty and becoming aware of the deception, they shouted to their comrades, at which point West German police fired upon them. A gun battle ensued, and several terrorists and one police officer were killed. The helicopter flight crews ran for cover, but the Israeli athletes were bound together and trapped. After the initial fusillade, in which the terrorists also shot out the floodlights that had been illuminating the tarmac, the scene settled into a tense stalemate punctuated by sporadic gunfire. Onlookers surrounded the airfield, and sportscaster Jim McKay, who was anchoring Olympic coverage for the U.S. network ABC, provided television viewers with preliminary updates. At midnight, a German official announced that all the hostages had been freed and all the terrorists had been killed, a report that proved to be tragically premature. Just after midnight, a terrorist tossed a hand grenade into one of the helicopters, killing all but one of the Israeli hostages aboard; David Berger, an American-born wrestler, succumbed to smoke inhalation before rescue personnel could reach him. A second terrorist sprayed the interior of the other helicopter with bullets at close range, murdering the five remaining Israelis.

Too late to aid in the rescue effort, the armoured cars finally reached the runway, but their crews had no knowledge of the deployment of police personnel in the field and no way to communicate with them. A gunman ran toward a position where one of the helicopter pilots and a police sniper had taken cover. The terrorist was shot and killed by the sniper, but the movement on the darkened runway drew fire from one of the armoured cars, and both the pilot and sniper were seriously wounded by friendly fire. By 12:30 AM on September 6, the shooting had stopped, and the 20-hour reign of terror was over. Eleven Israelis had been killed, along with one Munich policeman, and five Black September terrorists lay dead. Three of the gunmen were captured. At 3:00 AM McKay, who had been broadcasting from the Olympic Village for 14 straight hours, summarized the tragic outcome of the botched rescue with the words “They’re all gone.” For the first time in history, the Olympic Games were suspended, for 24 hours, in tribute to the murdered athletes.

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AMITZUR SHAPIRA

AMITZUR SHAPIRA

9 July 1932 – 6 September 1972

MUNICH MASSACRE 1972

            Amitzur Shapira was an Israeli sprinter and long jumper in the Israel team at the 1972 Olympic Games, in Munich, Germany. He was the head coach for the Israeli track and field team.

            Shapira was born in Mandatory Palestine and lived in Herzliya. He worked as a teacher and was married with four children.

            Shapira, 40, was killed by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich Massacre. He and ten other members of the Israel Olympic team were taken hostage. Two was killed initially and the other nine victims, including Shapira were killed at the airbase during an unsuccessful rescue attempt by Munich police. Shapira was buried in Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv.

            Shapira’s grandson is a well-known German artist and comedian Shahak Shapira. Shapira was born in Israel and immigrated to Germany in 2002 with his mother and brother.

#amitzurshapira #shahakshapira #1972olympicgames #munichmassacre