How much of the Munich (Germany) massacre attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics.....with the eight folks of the Palestinian terrorist gang Black September....involved the German Red Army Faction?
Well....the chief demand of the terrorists was....let the 234 Palestinian prisoners held in jails in Israel go, and the two Red Army Faction members held (Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof).
This rarely comes up, and if you quizzed most Germans....they don't remember this part of the massacre at the Olympics.
The ending of the attempted exit? Three of the Palestinians survived, and were 'traded' around two months later....for the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight. After this release....Israel had a new policy....basically to hunt down anyone connected to the Palestinian group....who was involved, and terminate them.
Baader and Meinhof? Dead in prison by suicide in May 1976. At least, that's the official version of the story. Some may disagree, but that's what the police reported.
The handling of the Munich situation? For years, this was a 'mess' and was continually brought up that the German police were not capable of handling these situations.
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I remember both groups, my father was assigned to USEUCOM. I remember the heightened security at Patch Barracks. And I went to the see the Olympics after the terrorist attack. One of the images that sticks with me is seeing all the flags at half-staff except the Arab countries.
It is an odd period, and history/facts seem to evolve every decade where you get another piece of the story and wonder if you will ever reach a point where no additional evolving will occur. All of this...leading back to the Shah of Iran and his 'placement' by the British oil companies, as the trigger, with the Soviets probably re-arranging the board after that point.
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