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Munich massacre
The
Munich massacre
was an attack during the
1972 Summer Olympics
in
Munich
,
West Germany
, at which eleven
Israeli Olympic team
members were taken
hostage
and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the
Palestinian
group
Black September
. Shortly after the crisis began, they demanded 234 prisoners jailed in Israel and the German-held founders of the
Red Army Faction
(
Andreas Baader
and
Ulrike Meinhof
) be released. Black September called the operation "
Iqrit
and
Biram
", after two
Palestinian Christian
villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the
Haganah
in 1948.
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