By Simon Reeve
Published to coincide with Steven Spielberg's Munich, this can be the gripping, definitive account of the bloodbath of Israeli athletes on the 1972 Olympics and the Israeli revenge operation that followed—now on hand in paperback, with a brand new epilogue.
At 4:30 A.M. on September five, 1972, a band of Palestinian terrorists took 11 Israeli athletes and coaches hostage on the summer time Olympics in Munich. greater than 900 million audience the chilling, twenty-hour occasion on tv, as German experts desperately negotiated with the terrorists. ultimately, past due within the night, helicopters bore the terrorists and their surviving hostages to Munich's little-used Furstenfeldbruck airfield, the place occasions went tragically awry. inside of mins all of the Israeli athletes, 5 of the terrorists, and one German policeman have been dead.
Why did the rescue undertaking fail so miserably? And why have been the studies compiled by way of the German professionals hid from the general public for extra than...
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Then they pushed the other four Israelis up the stairs within apartment 1 into the bedroom of Andre Spitzer and Ja-cov Springer. All the Israelis were tied up tightly at their wrists and ankles with rough cord precut to the correct length. Despite his appalling wound, Weinberg was still conscious. While Issa and two other terrorists guarded their prisoners, Tony and the rest of the Palestinian squad dragged the injured Israeli out onto Connollystrasse and began pushing and shoving him along to the next apartment — the fedayeen wanted more hostages.
27 “I had a quick look around, saw what was happening, and made a bolt for it out the back. You don’t look at people when they are shooting at you. S. team and pounded on the door of the coaches’ room on the ground floor. S. track coach, groggily answered. Ladany was standing before him, utterly distraught. ” asked Ladany in a desperate tone. ” asked Bowerman with a tired growl. “The Arabs are in our building,” said Ladany. “Well, push them out,” replied Bowerman. ”28 His mind clearing quickly at the news, Bowerman pulled Ladany into the safety of the room and called the police.
Zeev Friedman,a weightlifter from Haifa, wrote postcards to his parents and sister Nina. Andre Spitzer, a fencing coach born in Romania, pumped coins into pay phones to ring his wife Ankie in Holland. ” It was a wonderful night. The play was in German, but because Amitzur spoke Yiddish he could understand it. Esther listened carefully as he translated for her. “I had reached the second stage, and it felt like the whole delegation had won. Everybody celebrated in the success. It was a very moving night.